Middlebury Campus 1990-11-08 : Volume 88, Issue 8

Campus

Middlebury, Vermont

Established 1905

Thursday, November 8,1990

Alums return to talk about
being gay at Middlebury

MGLSA facilitates panel discussion ' 1 %

By Adlai Hardin wearing bluejeans. ■ ||| «re&

Five homosexual Middlebury Cob As one might have predicted, the

lege alumni participated in an unprece- panelistsmadcilclearthatitisnoteasy

dented panel discussion on Sunday in being homosexual at Middlebury. . '‘fp BJI

Upper Proctor Loun;;e enti'U-d "Cam- "MyUpcricncc here was extremely M

ing Back: Gay and Lesbian Alumni painful,” said Andrea Kelly '87. "I m

Return.” think any coming out process is diffi JB

The two lesbians and three gay men cult, but I think as a rule, if the gender

each spoke briefly on what it was like roles are really stereotyped in a com- : -gi gi

to be gay at Middlebury, and answered munity, then the coming out process wT

formed the basis a wT ^e/0T pH|

The event was sponsored by the. “For me, Middlebury was a fairly
MiddleburyCiay Lesbian Straight Alii- claustrophobic environment," said IB}
ance (MCI IS A) in conjunction with a David Waters '81. "It was a hard place
nimiber of other campus organizations to start to deal witlt who you were and
including the Center for Counciling your sexuality.”

and Human Relations, the Office of "Through high school : thought 1 JBR

Alumni Relations and the Women's wasalcsbian,"saidMary Bcmstein'85. aBBk *BBB6*4B

Culture Senes. I was attracted to women. 1 had no Members of the panel from left to right: Guy Kettlehack , 73, Mary Bernstein*85, BUI Landry'74, Andrea

Thts was the second campus-wide mterest the guys m my class and K elly>87 and David Waters'81. Photo* Jackie Betden

event sponsored by MGLSA this se- thought, well, when I go to college Ill 3 ■■■ -- _ 1

mester. Several weeks ago the group find out. So I really came here trying to around campus brought back anxieties, tor to open for brunch on Sunday mom- I really didn't want to follow them. All

organized Gay Jeans Day and asked come out, and this was not the place to nervousness and painful memories of ing prompted some familiar feelings of that terrible tension came back,” he

members of the college community to do that.” their time as students here. Guy Ket- for him. said.

show their support for gay rights by Several panelists said that walking llehack '73 said that waiting for Proc- “When I started to sec the kids go in, (continued on page 3)

Light, Ginevan, Schoenfeld present college budget to SGA

By Dawn Blalock "There's nothing about money in where that money will go. would need $1 billion in endowment when they gel old we aak them for a

After four months of preparation and of itself which is important to “Wc arc a labor intensive instiui- and then we wouldn't need any tui- bequest,” added Schoenfeld.

and sixteen hours of meetings with the Middlebury College. We are not a lion,” he said. “Fifty cents out of our tion.” The trustees and then President

trustees. President Timothy Light, Vice bank. Wc arc not a for-profit institu- dollar is spent to pay the salaries and Since a gift on that scale is highly Robison reviewed the college's finan-

Presidcnt for Administration andTreas tion.” said Ginevan. “Our objective is wages for people who work at theinsli- improbable the Development Office cial status in 1983 in an attempt 10 plan

urer David Ginevan, and Director of 16 provide the top rate liberal arts odu- tution, whether you arc a student worker campaigns constantly for alumni con- for the needs and expenses for the next

Development Michael Schoenfeld pre- cation opportunity. That requires or the president” tributions. 13 years. They came up.with the plan

sented an explanation of the college's money.” The college budget for 1990 is “We know that if we can raise more for dorm renovations to “maintain the

financial resources at the Student How much money? The resource approximately $70 million. That’s up money then that is going to keep the residential college atmosphere” and

Government Association's regularly committee estimates that the compre- from $14 million in 1975. pressure on tuition down,” he said. addressed Ihe concern that faculty sala-

scheduled Sunday meeting. hensivc fee could go as high as $35,000 “It would require a $50,000[contri- “With the alumni we ask them every ries had fallen behind those at comps-

"As a newcomer, I think it is appro- by the year 2000. button] to the endowment to offset a$l single year for a gift. When they get rabie schools.

priate forme to say that those who have Ginevan tried to explain exactly raise in tuition,” said Schoenfeld. “We rich we ask them for a big gift. And (continued on page 3)

been responsible for Middlebury Col- __ # . # #

College community experiences upswing in accidents

better shape than many other institu- Recent graduate critically ^Authorities report high rate

concem over rising injured in automobile wreck of alcohol-related accidents

tuition has been great enough m recent ^ J

years to provoke a student strike against By Adlai Hardin 1:30 a.m. Cleary was trapped in the car By Rachel Bryant the current percentage of alcohol-re-

the 11.7% tuition hike in the spring of A Middlebury graduate who has for nearly half an hour while emer- According to an official at Porter latcd accidents accounted for by Mid-

1989. been working at the Geonomics Insti- gency rescue personnel worked to free Medical Center's emergency room, dlcbury students is not uncommon.

Currently, the comprehensive fee tute this fall remains in the intensive her, college administration officials approximately 9 out of every 10 acci- “TBere is no doubt in my mind that

accounts for75 cents out of every budget care unit at the Medical Center Hospi- said. dents seen at the emergency room are more alcohol-related problems are

dollar spent The remaining 25 percent tal in Burlington after losing control of Cleary was on her way back from alcohol-related. For the past several generated by college students (than by

of the budget comes from the endow- hercar and hitting a tree early on Satur- visiting Lisa Makuku '90, Cleary's weekends, almost 90% of these acci- town residents]," said Kirkpatrick,

mem income, gifts and grants, andoxher day, October 27. roommate from last year. dents have involved underage Middle- “About 75 per cent of the time we

sources of revenue such as football Beth Cleary'90 was driving north Makuku said that Cleary had been bury College students. deal with college students, we're deal-

games, vending machines, the Snow on Halladay Road near the junction drinking earlier in the evening, but One night last weekend, out of the ing with incidents involving alcohol,”

BowI.andtheCrestRoom.or.asGine- with Route 7 on her way back to the dismissed the possibility that alcohol five people admitted to the emergency said Kirkpatrick,

van said, "all the business operations of Geonomics Institute, where she has had been a factor in the accident. room for treatment, all were under Administrative Director of Ihe Par-

the college that hopefully operate on a been living for the past several months. She suffered significant head inju- Vermonl’alegaldrinkingageof21and Ion Health Center Nancy Cutting agrees

break even basis.” The accidentoccurred at approximately (continued on page 3) all were intoxicated. Four of there that many of the accidents they treaton

Preliminary results of Vermont State elections ...

(MONTEPEUER) Following elections this pan Tuesday, Vermont will have some familiar faces taking eve of business in
Montpelier, but a newcomer will be taking care of congressional business in Washington. Here are (he results mime of press:

Formerfoar-term Republican governor Richard Snelling defeated Democrat Peter Welch byaAvginof 52pcrcerSto 46 percenL
_ Sneiling was governor of Vermont from 1977 to 1985.

■ In the race for lieutenant governor. Democrat incumbent Howard Dean defeVcd

Republican challenger Michael Bernhardt by gathering 58 percent at Ihe vote to
Bernhardt's 39 percent.

Secretary of Stale James Douglas and Auomey General Jeffrey Amestoy easily won
re-election.

But Ihe biggest news of the night was independent Benue Sanders' victory over
Republican congressman Peter Smith With 82 percent of the vote in, Sanders was
outdistancing Smith by a margin of 56 percent to 40 percent.

In 1988, Smith defeated Sviden by t margin of 41 percent to 38 percent.

Senders said Vermont could be the leader inapolitlcal revolution. He said Ms victory
Tuesday is not die end, but the beginning.

"I'm to proud llut the people of Vermont bad the coorage to gooulstde the mbtianal
two-party system, to sunt up to the presidem, the vice-preddem and die antkinviaaal
cotponsiont," he said. (Wirt KtporU)

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The Middlebury Campus

Thursday, November 8,1990

SOS sponsors forum on abortion

By Chad Bryant

Student Dies After domUtor y recently, but rc

_ lease their names until the

WiU Lacrosse tion is completed. Thestu.

Initiation Rite ‘f* 561 a couch ?«“ in t

of the east wmg of Moulder
Nicholas Haben. a first-year stu- housed almost two hundn
dent at Western Illinois University, Students began to return toi
was found dead in a dormitory room parts of the dormitory last
the morning after a hazing incident Twenty students were i
performed by the members the the jttred as a result of the blazi
university's lacrosse club. Alcohol last week, four were still h
poisoning was determined by an with severe bums. One of i

autopsy to be the cause of death. suffered a fractured vertet
Nine first-year players, including - suit of jumping from a
Haben, had been forced to take part window. First-year stut

in an initiation rite that consisted of a Young is still listed in cri

drinking relay and various other ac- tion.

tiyides involving alcohol. One of

these activities involved the con- C l t Vi

sumption of what upperclass students CSnCtOll r OOI

on the team refer to as “rookie juice," Teait! Abandons

Variety of opinions represented infilled Hepburn Lounge

By Mariette Johnson

Students Organizing Students
(SOS) held an open forum on abortion-
related issues last Thursday night which
filled Hepburn Lounge. The forum,
intended to be an open discussion,
turned into a debate towards the end.

SOS is a group that supports the
reproductive rights of women. The tion.”

forum was organized to raise aware- Banning abortion, she added, “in
ness about abortion-related issues and
to engage the three active student or¬
ganizations in an exchange of ideas.

Professor of Anthropology, David
Andrews acted as mediator for the

“Thepro-choicepositionisaccom- Christina Swenson '91, a member
modating," said founder of Middle- of the Christian Fellowship, stressed
bury Students for Choice Mary Beth that her stance was only “one Christian
Dingledy '91. “It accommodates the perspective,” and that she did not seek
right-to-lifers in the sense that they tobcthesolerepresentativeofthcpro-
don't have to have an abortion if they life movement,
don’twantto.yetitencompassesthose “I also believe that life is precious
people who do wish to have an abor- and important, that life of the woman

and of the child in an-abortion situation
is precious, and I believe that we all
fringes on constitutional rights. have to be more educated on what kind

“It's my body and if I choose to of choices we do have to make,” she
make a decision to have an abortion, I said.

should be able to make that choice.” President of Middlcbury College

Right to Life Eleonora Holley '93 slated
that she is fighting for the life of the
unborn.

“1 believe that life for everyone is a
struggle, but I think often wc take this
for granted. I think that death itself is a
struggle. 1 choose to snuggle for the
life of the unborn. In many ways, to
ignore the unborn's existence is todeny
our own right to speak out tonight,” she
said.

Another panel member was David
O’Hara '91, who stated that his stance
combined ideas from both beliefs.

“My opinions are both pro-life and
pro-choicesincelcan't fully subscribe
to the positions of either extreme
group,” he said. “I believe abortion is
morally wrong, and at the same time an
almost necessary evil.”

An audience member asked the
panel how one can determine when the
fetus is to be considered a baby, A pro¬
life panelist stated that the scientific
definition uflifc begins at conception.

Schaefer said that she felt that the
scientific stance is a dangerous one for
the focus is on the fetus rather than on
(continued on page 3)

De Pauw University students stage silent
protest of Bush 9 s Civil Rights Bill veto

Greencastle,IN(NSNS)Protesting know he sensed how passionately we The committee plans more demon-
Prcsident Bush's vctooftheCivil Rights all felt on the issue.” strations in front of politicians visiting

Bill, more than 90 students at DePauw Following the protest, Branson and DcPauw.“Wcdon’tnecd violence, and

University in Indiana indicated their the other student demonstrators joined wedon’tnccdtovocallyharass,”Bran-
objections silently during a speech by in forming the Committee for Civil sonconcludcs.“Wcwanltopickcland
Vice President Dan Quayle on October Rights, to act as a cohesive campus be together as a silent force for civil

“My opinions are both pro-life and pro-choice
since / can’t fully subscribe to the positions of
either extreme group,” he said. “I believe
abortion is morally wrong, and at the same time
an almost necessary evil”

a concoction of beer, schnapps,

tomato paste, and Tabasco sauce. lrflultlOIl

The lacrosse team, which is only A tradition at Carleton College in
a club sport, has been suspended which members of the football team
pending ahearingbytheunivenity's pick the most attractive first-year fe-
Council on Student Welfare. Twenty male student and appoint a member of
of the students involved with the the team to attempt to date her has been
incident now face possible expul- halted because the woman chosen this
sion by the university, and a Western year objected to the practice.

Illinois University official said that '1 was really surprised to find such

the results of their investigation will a sexist, ffatemalistic tradition on

be turned over to the County State’s campus," said Alyssa Whitehead.

Attorney. Administrators were appalled at the

practice.

“The football team is making aclaim
on her,” said college chaplain Jewclnel
Davis. “It's an intimidating and de¬
meaning thing to have happen.”

Kara Austin, a sophomore who's
VandalsattheState University of number came up last year said, “Noone
New York st Buffalo broke into the ever approached me like I was just a
University's School ofMedicine and sexual object. But when I walked past
Biomedical Sciences and released football players in the the dining hall, I
approximately 750 laboratory ani- knew they would be talking about me.
mats,university officials said. While It made me feel uncomfortable.”
animals from 10 experiments were The team attempted to formally
recoveredandidentified,twoexperi- apologize to the student body in an
ments had to be abandoned and will editorial letter written in the campus
have to be repeated. newspaper.

One of the experiments that must “The tradition was all a mockery
bescianjed.undertakenbyDr.Pha- and was not intended to be taken seri-

seven-member panel and the students member, described herself as a “frcc-
in attendance. The panel consisted of .thinking, self-determining woman,
three students representing pro-choice “My definition of human fife is in
beliefs, three students representing pro- terms of what l know it to be—a fully

fife beliefs and one student uncommit- functioning beingcapablcof independ-

ted to either side. ent existence,” she said.

Representing one pro-choice opin- Schaefer said that her definition of
ion was Felitia Hancock '93, who existencedid not include fetuses in the
stressed the importance of education first three months of pregnancy,
about abortion, birth control, and safe “Anti-abortionists even with the best

sex in her opening statement. of intentions will in the end succeed in

“Wc should focus our attention on relegating women to the position of
educating the young people today who breeders,” she said .

have not become sexually active. We Vice-Presidentof Middlcbury Col-

should make sure that these people lege Right to Life Rose Rccchia '93
know that abstinence is the best policy expressed her belief in the value of the
and ifthcy’renot going to abstain then unborn child,
they should use birth control,” said “I want to dispel the myth that pro-
Hancock. fife is anti-woman,” said Rccchia.

SUNY Buffalo
Vandals Destroy
Research

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Thursday, November 8,1990

TheMtddkbury Campus

Freshmen seminars not to count toward requirements

Faculty also look at first-year student advising; students express dissatisfaction

By Hilary Seiden
At the second consecutive faculty
meeting in which the freshmen semi¬
nar program was discussed, faculty
members agreed Monday that fresh¬
men seminars will not be used to sat¬
isfy the college distribution require¬
ment. At their previous meeting a
month ago, the faculty had discussed
the quality of advising of the seminar
program.

With twenty seven faculty mem¬
bers voting against the motion, the

decision to deny credit towards distri¬
bution requirements for freshman
seminar courses was not unanimous.
Several faculty members argued that
there' are so many requirements for
students to fulfill before graduation in
addition to to major requirements that
the freshman seminar should help
towards meeting distribution require¬
ments.

Political science professor Paul
Nelson spoke on behalf of his depart¬
ment, which was unanimously opposed

Gay Panel

(continued from page 1)

In spite of the serious nature of the
topicunder discussion, the atmosphere
of the event was decidedly lighthearted
and informal. The crowd of between 80
and 100 people was clearly friendly
toward the panel, and on a number of
occasions the speakers had the audi¬
encelaughing.

“Middlebury is a really straight
place,” Keltlchack said. “Part of my
discomfort at walking into Proctor was
that there were a lot of really healthy
looking blond, blue eyed, well scrubbed
kids, and I just didn’t relate when I was
here. I mean, I took a shower today, but
I really didn't feel like I was made of
the same cloth.”

But Kettlehack said that he did not
resent Middlebury College for the
trauma he underwent as a student here,
and in fact, said that he has "come to
develop an affection for Middlebury.”

“I d id feel terribly isolated here and
terribly alone. Bull think that had more
to do with the process that I was going
through as an individual than it did
wilhMiddlcbury. I don’t know thalmy
life would have been better had I gone
to NYU or Columbia."

Kettlehack has written a book en¬
titled Easing the Ache, which he says is
in many ways a product of his experi¬
ence as a gay man.

The panelists fielded questions re¬
lating to AIDS, the effect of homo¬
sexuality on geuing and keeping a job,
and advice to gay students.

None of the panelists had experi¬
enced discrimination in the workplace-
due to being gay. All of them empha¬
sized that AIDS represents a serious
problem for both gay and straight
people, and as one speaker Said, “the
strongest weapon" for everyone is to
“get informed.” They also advised the
audience to “reach out to those who
didn’tcome”totheevcntbypulting ar¬
ticles in school publications and “dis¬
creetly contacting” people who might
need support and acceptance.

“I’m really encouraged at the turn¬
out here and that Middlebury has a gay-
lesbian-straight alliance,” Bernstein
said. “I’m glad that Middlebury now
has some structural ways in order for
people to be comfortable."

“Nothing is going to get solved by
this or any other group. It’s hard to
grow up, whether you’regayorstraight.
It’s hard to have relationships,” Kcl-
tlehauk said.

\

to the motion.

“Students already have enough
separate requirements, and the divi¬
sions are adequate to judge if a fresh¬
man seminar given by a faculty meih-
ber of that division, should be granted
divisional credit,” he said.

Nelson said that those seminars that
do meet divisional requirements should
be awarded credit.

Other faculty members said the issue
could not be easily resolved and that
instead of being given divisional labels
interdisciplinary breadth should be
encouraged.

“There are a number of freshman
seminars which cover a variety of top¬
ics and cannot be neatly classified into
a particular division,” said Professor of
Biology Randall Landgrcn. Landgren
is the coordinator of the freshman semi¬
nar program.

Landgrcn disagreed with Nelson’s
contention that those freshman semi¬
nars which do fall into a specific divi¬
sions be counted towards Ific comple¬
tion of a requirement.

“If the freshman knew that there
were certain seminars for which they
would not be receiving credit, they
would be less inclined to enroll in them,”
he said.

Although the faculty remained di¬
vided on the issue of freshman seminar
credit, they were in general agreement
in their October faculty meeting that
the implementation of freshman semi¬
nars and the advising system was a
success.

At the October faculty meeting, the
freshman seminar program as a whole
was reviewed and ratified. In the three -
year-old program students are required
to take a freshman seminar of which
the teacher is also their adviser. The
small class of no more than fifteen

The SOS forum on abortion issues drew a large crowd to Hepburn Lounge

Photo by Jackie Belden

meets two or three times a week in an
effort to ensure constant contact with
his or her advisor. Previous to the im¬
plementation of the seminar program
every faculty member was assigned a
group of advisees with whom they met
once or twice a year.

Faculty members who have taught
at Middlebury for at least two years are
entitled to design and teach their own
seminars provided that their courses are
approved by the administration. During
fall orientation, both faculty members
and student advisors are presented with
literature and lectures regarding course
selection.

Landgren said in an interview that
the program is an improvement on the
system of advising that preceded it, yet
there is a need for further improve-

vides communication among the stu¬
dents and their advisors.

“The college does a thorough job in
making sure that students receive the
proper information. Speeches are con¬
tinually repeated concerning require¬
ments, and there isa lot of checking up
to make sure a that no one falls through
the cracks,” he said.

According to Professor of Political
Science and former head of the Fresh¬
man Seminar Program Eric Davis, the
job of advisor, if performed correctly,
can make students' first days on cam¬
pus less taxing.

“Part of being an advisor is passing
down lore,” said Davis.

In his role as advisor, Davis in¬
forms advisees which classes are moat
likely to fill up, encourages students to

Abortion Forum

(continuedfrom page 2)

the psychological and physical effects

on the woman; ‘ 4 f

Judy Levenson '91 suggested that
the determination of when life begins is
a religious one, and that to create legis¬
lation based on one segment of die
population'sreligious view is undemo¬
cratic and a violationof the Constitution.

If a woman wants her baby, Schaefer
argued, the moment she finds out she is
pregnant she will consider it a life.
However, she added, in the case of an
unwanted fetus, “what you are carry¬
ing in the earty stages of pregnancy is
initially a sack of cells.”

Pro-lifers agreed that human life
begins at conception, and that all lives

must be protected, mothers'and fetus'
alike and that although the fetus is
dependent on its mother’s womb to
survive, it is a separate individual and
not simply “a part of the woman’s
body.”

“There are studies that say...S0%
of all women whogo through abortions
wi I) still be dealing with itseventoninc
months after die abortion. That is
something to be considered as well,”
Recciasaid.

“All the money, all thceffbrt, all the
lobbying is being spent on ’Let's stop
abortion.’ Who is spending money on
education? Education is being slashed,
welfare is being slashed, Medicaid is
being slashed, housing is being
slashed,** said Hancock.

To me being a woman and being

a feminist and at the same time being
pro-life is antithetical,” said a member
of the audience.

Questioning theroleof men's rights
one audience member said, “Your
whole argument seems to be predi¬
cated on the fact that the woman carries
the fetus and therefore it is her choice
about what to do with it. Now the fetus
isn’t created by a spontaneous genera¬
tion of the womm. What, if any. righto
does the man have in the decision?”
“Ultimately it is the woman's choice
because the man can walk away if he
wants., .so the burden ultimately comes
cm the woman,” Shaefer responded,
Therefore the woman retains ail dera-
iion-making righto pertaining to the
fetus.. .unless men start having babies.
Then we’ll talk.”

Although the faculty remained divided on the
issue of freshman seminar credit, they were in
general agreement in their October faculty
meeting that the implementation of freshman
seminars and the advising system was a success.

menu

He pointed out that the freshman
seminar program is moreefficicnt than
the old system, wherein some students’
advisors were from the physical educa¬
tion department.

“We conducted a three-year experi¬
ment which in the eyes of the students
is a huge chunk of their college career,
but it is really only a tiny trial which we
arc pleased by, although it still needs
some modifications,”mentioned Land¬
grcn.

“The freshman seminar program
enables the students and faculty to have
a more personal relationship. Many
professors such as myself have long
office hours, of which students fail to
take advantage, added Landgrcn. “In
the past, I often waited in my office to
offer the students extra help, but they
never arrived.”

At the same time, Landgrcn cited
the inexperience of some advisors as a
potential problem.

“Some advisors who are fairly new
to the school have never sat in on reg¬
istration and lack the first hand experi¬
ence of witnessing what it is actually
like running from table to table signing
up for courses,” he said.

Dean of the College John Emerson
agreed that the advising process pro¬

put their names on waiting lists, and
suggests to first-year students that they
get in line for winter term registration
early.

Still, some students question the
quality of advising of first-year stu¬
dents through the seminar program,
citing a lack of advice when they arc
particularly in need of quality advis¬
ing

Several first-year students said they
were forced to appeal to their junior
counselors for help during course reg¬
istration. Junior counselor Brian Good
'92 reported that several freshman in
Battell had no idea how to choose their
courses.

One first-yearstudentexpressedhis
dissatisfaction with his advisor.

“1 met with my advisor after only
having been at Middlebury for two
days, so I was basically clueless. My
advisor told me that since I had a high
registration number I needed to select
some back-up choices, but he didn't
have any advice on which courses they
should be.” Jimmy Doulos '94 ex¬
plained his particular dilemma.

“I knew more about registration than
my advisor. She was under the impres¬
sion that registration numbers were
assigned according to social security
numbers,” said Doulos.

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The MMdkbnry Campos

Thursday, November 8,1990

The Middlebury Campus

The Middlebury Campus is seeking motivated, capable students to fill
the following positions on next year’s editorial board:

Editor-in-chief : Ultimately responsible for all contents of the paper and all aspects of production.
Develops and writes all editorials with assistance of the board. Assists section editors whenever
necessary. Helps develop stories for all sections. Paid position.

Arts Editor : Develops, assigns, collects and edits arts stories. Someone with a sincere appreciation
for the arts who knows a wide range of students and faculty involved in the Middlebury cultural
scene.

Sports Editor : Develops, assigns, collects and edits sports stories. Knows Middlebury sports. Should
be familiar with the athletic program and a number of teams, captains and coaches.

Opinions Editor : Actively solicits and coordinates Letters to the Editor and opinions articles on local,
national and world issues.

Photo Editor : Oversees photo needs for all section editors. Must coordinate a competent reliable staff
of photographers.

Production Manager : Responsible for supervising production of paper and oversees layout. Ensures
proper materials are available at all times. Paid position.

Production Associates : Conduct all layout activities. Responsible to the Production Manager. Must
have a knowledge of, or be willing to learn Aldus PageMaker 3.2, and an appreciation for news¬
paper layout is desirable.

Advertising Manager : Responsible for soliciting advertisements, managing advertising billing and
communicating with customers. Also responsible for layout of ads. Paid on commission.

The Campus also needs typists and copy editors.

These positions are paid an hourly rate.

Applications are available at the Information Desk in Lower
Proctor, and they will be due on Friday, November 16. Please
sign up to be interviewed when you take an application.

Thursday, November 8,1990

The Middlebury Campus

FEATURES

NYC high school, rural college unite to learn

Hidden eccentricities lurk
around*normal’ campus
By Chris Piehler

On a visit toBurlington this week¬
end, I was struck first by the sheer
volume of tie-dyed material floating
around. After the shock of seeing
bell-bottoms at large wore off, I took
the time to be impressed by the large
percentage of the Burlington popula¬
tion that displayed some form of bla¬
tant eccentricity.

I’d say that at least half the people
I saw walking alone were holding
quite absorbing and sometimes rather
heated conversations with them¬
selves. When I heard a woman on the
other side of a monster touring sedan
say, apparently to a particularly lo¬
quacious crack in the sidewalk,
"Okay, we'll just go see one more
churchand then we'll go ”1 was quite
surprised (and I must admit just a tad
disappointed) to see her two sight¬
seeing-weary children emerge from
behind the cover of the car.

It was a scintillating sojourn, but I
breathed ahefty sigh of relief when I
parked mycaroverih the old familiar
A-lot (where, by the way, a recent ar-
chaeologicalexpeditionunearthedre-
mains remarkably similar to those of
Java man, as well as an entire ptero¬
dactyl carcass, at the bottom of one of

By Kristan Schiller

Middlebury College has had an
ongoingrelationshipwith DeWittClin-
ton High School in the Bronx for ap¬
proximately two years, sharing stu¬
dents and faculty with the initiative of
creating awareness and opportunities
forboth sides. Situated in the streets of
New Yoik City, DcWitt Clinton is 98%
Hispanic and Afro-American, while
Middlebury has a secluded rural set¬
ting as a backdrop and is, at present,
attended by predominantly Caucasian
students. Though seemingly worlds
apart, the schools arc separated by only
about 300 miles and have in common
one goal: education.

Among the programs which have
so far united these two very different
institutions have been faculty ex¬
changes, student visitations, Winter
Term teaching internships at Clinton
and summer internships for Clinton
graduates arranged by a Middlebury
alumnus.

“It’s the differences that really
enhance the partnership. The setting,
the backgrounds of our faculty, of our
students are just extremely different.
But the wonderful thing is, we have so
much in common,”staled Rick Dalton,
director of Enrollment Planning at
Middlebury and the engineer of
Middlebury’s exchange with DcWitt
Clinton. “It’s a sharing relationship.”

In 1983, Middlebury developed
Diversity Task Forces in New York,
Washington, D.C. and Boston. These
task forces were established in order to
raise awareness among Afro-Ameri¬
can and Hispanic studentsof the option
of attending college. It was the New
York Task Force’s idea that Middlc-
bury develop a partnership with an
urban high school to work towards that
goal.

As Dalton explained, “We started
with certain criteria. Obviously we
wanted a school that was interested in
a partnership, a school that had a strong
principal, a school that had a large
minority population and a school that
could together operate with Middlc-
bury to achieve our goals. Recruitment
was not part of the relationship. If that
happened, then that was wonderful, but
it was not an outcome. We looked at

Rick Dalton and Richard Dollase speak to students Interested In teaching at Clinton. Photo by Jamey Brenner

three schools, and overwhelmingly,
DcWitt Clinton was our choice."

Ten Clinton students presently at¬
tend Middlebury. Among them is Car¬
los Brown ’94.

“I’m pretty proud of having gone to
DcWitt Clinton and being a part of the
partnership between Middlebury and
DcWitt Clinton. Middlebury is a very
well -known college, and students from
DeWiuClinton don'lrcally know what
colleges like Middlebury arc like. If it
hadn't been for the partnership, I proba¬
bly wouldn’t have gone to Middlc-
bury," said Brown.

Dalton feels that one of the highly
positive outcomes of the program is
that ithas created momentum for other
institutions. Following Middlcbury's
example, St. Michael's College and
Williams College arc selling up their
own partnerships with Bronx high
schools. In addition, Monte Fiore
Hospital in New York City agreed to
accept three summer interns and to
establish additional paid internships
after Middlebury alumnus Sabin
Streeter (co-chair of the New York
Task Force) Financed summer intern¬
ships for Clinton graduates in hospi¬
tals, district attorneys offices and thea¬
ters.

A foundation called The Plan for
Social Excellence will sponsors work¬
shop with Middlebury in 1991 in an
effort to develop more relationships
such as that between Middlebury and
Clinton. Dalton is active in this foun¬
dation.

“We will invite ten other colleges
that have an interest, so that ten more
colleges can get on board and do part¬
nerships like this,” sail) Dalton. The
ultimate hope is that a consortium will
form, comprised of energetic institu¬
tions and organizations ready to both
Icam and teach.

On October 22, six Middlebury
professors went to DeWiu Clinton to
instruct in the classrooms. Faculty
exchanges are an important aspect of

the Middlcbury-Clinton partnership for
both teachers and students alike.

Cary Margolis, director of Coun¬
seling Services and associate professor
of English, was among the Middlebury
faculty that traveled to the Bronx two
weeks ago for what he called a “won¬
derful and moving experience.”

“We were welcomed very warmly
by the principal, the assistant principle
and a range of teachers. We each
taught four classes, and the students
that I met were very engaging,” he said.
“It was an incredibly powerful experi¬
ence to be at DcWiU Clinton, to leach
there and also to know that DcWitt
Clinton students are at Middlebury,
and that the Middlebury-DeWitt Clin-
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Douglas Adams refers
to something called a
“S.E.P.” Basically, this
is anything that is so
extraordinary that one
automatically assumes
it is Someone Else’s
Problem.

SAA takes to phones
for alumni donations

the potholes). I have always consid¬
ered Middlebury to be something of
a haven of normalcy. The tendency
here is to hold conversations with
one’s peers rather than with passing
particulates or airborne spores. Per¬
haps, though, I was letting this fact
tether my insight. Let’s look at a
lunchtime in the life of a Middlebury
student

In Life, the Universe, and Every¬
thing, Douglas Adams refers to some¬
thing called an “S.E.P.” Basically,
this is anything that is so extraordi¬
nary that one automatically assumes
it is Someone Else’s Problem and,
therefore, should be ignored. People
here (at least those in my circle of
friends) have an amazing ability to
create S.E.P.’s.

The perfect example is those desks
that are often strategically placed at
the door of Proctor. Behind these
monoliths lurk committed people
trying to sell you T-shins, get you to
vote, or sign you up for cleanups,
fasts and other socially conscious ac¬
tivities. But if you think you don’t
have time or if you jus t have a general
attitude of militant ambivalence, it’s
incredible how engrossed you can
become in talking to your roommate
about the grooming foibles of your
philosophy teacher (all the while look¬
ing warily out of the comer of your
eye at whatever today's menace is).

Phones in hand, thcStudcnl Alumni the donor requests that it be directed to

Association has begun their semi-an- a specific program or area. Each dollar

nual rally for donations. The SAA donated will be broken up and allotcd
Phone-a-thon, in which all students are to thedifferentdivisionsof the General
invited to participate, brings in money Fund as follows:
from Middlebury graduates to support 34 cents for instruction and aca-
numcrous facets of the Collage. It is dcmic support (including professors'
being held on the evenings of Novcm- salaries, books, lab equipment and
ber 4,6,7,13 and 14. computers).

Student volunteers in the Phonc-a- 30 cents for institutional support
thon organize themselves into teams of (such as Health Services and CC&P),

four and vie for prizes. Eachnight$75 12 cents for scholarships,

is given to the team with the most 11 cents for debt retirement acqui-

pledgcs for donations. Two $50 gift sitions (including student loans and
certificates from businesses in town pieces of art purchased by the College),

will also be awarded, one to the person 8 cents for student services (Deans'

who gathers the largest number of office materials and personnel),

5 cents for plant operations.

The SAA is focusing this semester
on calls to alumni from the classes of
'80-'90 who have a history of giving
money at least once in the past four
years. They arestrivingfor56% alumni
participation, an increase over last
year's54%. M iddlcbury is one of only
pledges over die course of the Phonc-a- 30 colleges in the country that has

thon and one to the person whose ahimni participation ofover 50%, Cone

pledges add up to the most money. A said, citing a survey done by Centre
free long distance telephone call for College.

each student, pizza and snacks add to Coneclaimcdlhalcalling the alumni
the temptation to volunteer. was generally a fun experience.

According to LeslieCone *92, chair- “It’s not a high pressure thing. It

person of the Phone-a-lhon, the money isn't our job to pull money out of

raised through the calls to ahimni is im- people,” Cone said. “Nineteen out of

portent to the College. twenty peopteyou get ahold of are very

"This support is really key to the positive people. You rarely get a rude
College,” she said, noting that it is person.”

especially beneficial when Middlebury Students can still sign up teams for

applies for grants. November 11 and 13. The calling

The money that ahimni pledge to sessions will last from 6:15 to approxi-
gi ve goes into the General Fund, unless mately 9:00 pm.

Each night $75 is given
to the team with the
most pledges for
donations.

College Tourist explores exotic lands, distant times for $4

\

By WoDawaou Society's centennial anniversary and is

Awtyl Thii week the College dcaigned to present examples of the
Tourist led me from Vermont and far. Society's role during the past century
far put the feeble boundaries of New u a major force in the evolution of
England. I walked the world for half an photography u an art form,

hour, all on a $4 museum admission Almost 300 photographs lined the
charge. walls of the DeCordova Museum, of

I stopped in frontof a wintry Mount which 120 were classic black-and-
St. Helens in Washington, four years whites from the 1870's through the
after the eruption that sent clouds of 1920’s. Curators and editors from the
ash into the skies of the West. I relaxed Corcoran Gallery and National Geo-

on a comer in Nuremberg, Germany u
the Graf Zeppelin floated over town
buildings and watched Nazis salute
Reichsfuhrer Hitler. During my brief
pit-stop at the Serengeti National Park
in Tanzania, I felt the death of a wilde¬
beest. The wildebeest’s front legs
buckle, and from behind a lion's teeth
tear into its shoulder, paws firmly grip¬
ping its prey. 1 catch the wildebeest's
tenor-filled eyes, looking straight at
me. 1 suddenly fell guilty for having
shared his lonely death and moved on.

I walked through times and places
far removed from the wonderful fall
day which greeted me as I drove into
Lincoln, Massachusetts. The “lime
travel machine” which I describe lay
inside the DeCordova Museum, about
20 minutes from Boston and three and
a half hours from Middlebury. On one
of the final slops on its 20 city tour,

“Odyssey: The Art of Photography at
N ational Geographic" brought me from
Vermont to Boston. 1 thought it was
my last chance to see the exhibit, which
would leave Boston the next day.

Organi zed by the Corcoran Gallery
of Art in Washington, D.C., “Odyssey”
celebrates the National Geographic

The images never stopped. Pictured in the
exhibit were adventure stories beyond belief, as if
Geographic had hired Indiana Joneses with
Nikons instead of whips.

collection which succeeded in confirm- zard which lasted nine days trapped
ing National Geographic ’ s niche in the them on their return trip, and they died
photographic world of art. ashorteightmilesfromtheirbasecamp.

“Odyssey” is a century of photos, Daylived.andthataftemoonhisvisage
bringing light and detail to people told me his story,

everywhere. One frame shows an The images never stopped. Pic-
Egyptian guide robed in brown, stand- lured in the exhibit were adventure
ing atop the Great Pyramid in Giza, a stories beyond belief, as if Geographic

glowing cigarettehanging from his lips, had hired Indiana Joneses with Nikons

He wears Adidas tennis shoes, show- instead of whips,
ing white and striped black against the Along a stretchof wall, I peered into

gray stone of the pyramid at dawn, an underwater scene, trying to figure
Hundreds of carvings crater and sculpt out what sort of monsterlooked back at
the stone on which he stands: “K. me, right into the lens. I studied the
Payne, 1970," "R.A.K."and “S.F. + picture’s description by the frame.
I-M." I discovered that in Kenya, Alan

The intense eyes of B. Day stared Root dove into Mzima Springs and
back at me steadily from one photo, found a hippopotamus. Seconds after
unwavering in depth and determina- taking the picture of it, the hippo at-

THE STUDENT GOVERNMENT
ASSOCIATION

and

THE COMMUNITY COUNCIL

will sponsor

An open community discussion on the Report of
the Committee to Restructure the House System

to be held on

Thursday, November 15 at 7:30 P.M.
in Upper Proctor Lounge

Committee members, deans, and student leaders
will be present to answer questions and to
dicuss the issues.

Please obtain a copy of the report from the
Student Information Desk in Proctor Hall or the
Office of the Dean of the College. Copies

Located on Mill St. In Frog Hollow
Across from the new footbridge
Open Mon. - Bet. 10:00 - 5:30, Sun. 12:00 - 5:00
phone: 388-4406

will be available starting Monday, November 12

Thursday, November 8,1990

The Middlebury Campus

tlilt&fc

Senior to bring ‘kid stuff’ to class

By Elizabeth Brewer

If you really want to know How the
Grinch Stole Christmas , you should be
taking Donna More's January term
course: Addressing Moral Develop-
mentThrough Children’s Literature (SL
109.1). The class will concentrate on
children’s reactions to children’s lit¬
erature, focusing on such well known
authors as Dr. Seuss and Maurice
Sendak. More '91 hopes to show the
effect of children’s literature on
children's interactions with others and
on their attitudes towards the environ¬
ment.

“There are some great children’s
books out there for kids and adults,”
she said. “It's not just a teacher's
course.”

The format of the course involves a
combination of field work andreading
with, “hopefully, some lectures as well.”
If all goes as planned, More hopes to
“have everybody set in a classroom
downtown” to interact with the chil¬
dren.

The class will have contact mostly
with elementary age children. More
stated that the out-of-class reading will
focus primarily on “two different views
of the way children's literature affects
kids, one by Beddleheim, one by
Colberg.

“We’H be reading from both au¬
thors, concentrating mainly on a book
from each,” she said. She stressed the
importance of “a lot of working with
the kids,” and looks forward to the ap¬
plication of the two theories in the
field.

More has always been interested in
children. She has been a camp coun¬
selor since the age of fifteen, has al-

* UVM Royall Tyler Theatre * Burlington Metropolitan Art

presents Much Ado About Nothing Gallery isholdinganexhibitcalled“A
November 14-17. One of the most Celebration of Fire, Water and Steel”
popular of Shakespeare's comedies, through the month of November by
directed by Ed Feidner. Performance designer Daniel Zilka. It features col-
times are evenings at 8 pm, Saturday orful and exciting designs for the water
matinees at 2 pm. Tickets go on sale at tower at UVM, one of them inspired by
BoxOffice(openlOam-5pm)starting the Steel Pan of Trinidad.
November?. Call656-2094.

* The Vermont Pub and Brewery
in Burlington celebrates its second an¬
niversary on Sunday, November 11,2
pm-midnight. Live jazz 4 pm-closing,
t-shirt raffle, 10% discount on food and
beverage all day. Lunch and dinner
available. Brewery tours Wednesdays
at8pm and Saturdays at4pm. For info
call 865-0500.

* Art Lessons available at Ver¬
mont Stale Craft Center at Frog Hol¬
low. Classes in Location Painting and
Studio Work, Acrylic Painting, Table
Building, Black and White Darkroom
Workshop, Slone Carving and Pottery
On and Of f the Wheel arc being offered
in the evenings. Tuition ranges from
$50 to $275, depending on class.

Classes begin September 25. Call 388- * Acoustic Music at Dally Bread

3177. Bakery & Cafe in Richmond features

local legends and favorite musicians,

* Attention All Poets—the crili- Thursdaysal7:30pm.Itservcsupnew

cally acclaimed Frog Gone Review is songs and old, both humorous and
accepting poetry through January 15 poignant, alongside of light suppers,
for its 1991 edition. Some rcnumcra- desserts and beverages. This Month:
tion. For info send self-addressed November8,StevePastncrpresentsan
stamped envelope to: Box 46308, Mt. evening of lute, banjo and more; No-
Clcmcns, MI 48046. vember 15, Betsy Bolt is joined by the

Sweet Buns, offering swing to gospel,

* Burlington Film Society pres- blucgrasstoblucs.Tickets$3.50adults,
ents “Shadows of Forgotten Ances- $1.50 children. Call 434-3148 for in-
tors” on Sunday,Novembcrl8at7pm formation.

The format of the course promises a give-and-
take relationship between children and college
student assistants. While the college students
learn, they*U be teaching, and vice versa.

ways babysat and last year worked two
hours a day in a first grade classroom.
This past summer she taught emotion¬
ally disturbed children.

“My major inspiration for thccoursc
came from the things I learned from
these maladjusted kids and their abused
families this summer,” she said. More
saw the need for such rewarding con-

about trying to have it approved.

“It’s harder to get these courses
passed as students, for obvious rea¬
sons,” she said. If organized the right
way, a student led course would give a
new perspective, as well as a sense of
team efliort and common interest “be¬
cause the classes are not going to be
blow-offs,” said More.

tact at Middlebury. “Most people don’t know that you

“I got to know [the children]. The can teach J-Term courses as students,"
daily interaction was really important, she said, “which is a shame.”

It’s hard to explain how important it is Morebclieves that the students who

to learn from kids,” she reiterated, are aware of the option don’t try bc-
“Thcse are necessary subjects for any- cause “they think it’s impossible to get
one, and there aren't any courses at [the course] passed and are dissuaded
Middlebury that teach us in the way by the October deadline.” She finds it
that my summer taught me.” disheartening that more people don’t

Her interest in children’s books try and hopes her course will heighten

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be teaching, and vice versa, which offers
rewards for both sides.

“It’s amazing how quickly some
first graders leam to read,” said More.
She believes it is “something anyone
who is considering being a parent at
some point in their lives should see.”

“You leam a lot from the kids you
work with every day, and I wanted to
apply that Teaming to the great
children's books written for both kids
and adults,” she said.

Her favorite children's authors are
Graham Base, Don and Audrey Wood,
Mem Fox.MauriceSendak (Where the
Wild Things Are) and, of course. Dr.
Seuss. She urges anyone interested in
the course to go pick up a book by one
of these authors. She affirmed, “You
won’t be able to put it down.”

More has found that one of the
greatest rewards of her Middlebury
teaching experience has been “the
connection with the town.”

“It’s really funny to go downtown
and recognize more five year olds than

in City Hall Auditorium. (1964/Rus¬
sia) by Sergei Parajanov. This tragic
talc of two lovers separated by a family
feud is one of the most unorthodox
films ever made in the Soviet Union.
With English subtitles. $4 general, $2
members.

* UVM Lane Film Series presents
“Coup dc Grace,” a 1976West German
film by Schlondorff, on Wednesday,
November Mat7:30pm in the Flem¬
ing Museum, Room 101 in Burlington.
$3Aicket. For more info cal1656-4455,
8:30 am-4 pm.

* UVM Lane Concert Series pres¬
ents Marion Verbruggen and Lea Na¬
tions, Friday, November 16 at 8 pm in
the Ira Allen Chapel. Dutch recorder
virtuoso Verbruggen will perform a
scries of little known chamber concer¬
tos by Vivaldi with the superb early
music group, “Les Nations”. Tickets
$17.50/$12^0/$7.50,available at UVM
Campus Ticket Store A Flynn Box

* Whetstone Theatre Company
presents How I Got That Story, by
Amlin Gray, November 2-4,7-10, at
the River Valley Performing Arts
Center in*Putney. The play takes place
in a war-tom, Vietnam-like country,
and chronicles a reporter’s search for
truth and hit transformation through
contact with the historical event. Tick¬
ets $ 10 adults/$7 youth (17 and under).
For performance times and info call
387-5454.

* Crossroads Arts Council pres¬
ents the Fiddle Puppet Cloggers of
Annapol is, Maryland on Saturday, No¬
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Academy in Rutland. Featuring
La Vaughn Robinson, jazz tapper ex¬
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good old fashioned fiddling will thrill
audiences and set their feel tapping.
Tickets $ 12/adults, $ 10/seniorcitizens
A students, $6 youth (12 A under). For
reservations and info call 775-5413,

college kids,” she laughed.

Office. For info call 656-3085. day or evening.

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The Middlebury Campus

Thursday, November 8,1990

Student Leadership Program gives key skills for future

By Dudley Wlnthrop

"Leadership is service,” President
Light said when asked about the new
Student Leadership ftogram. President
Light was the first of eight speakers to
lecture this semester on the subject of
leadership. His seminar, entitled “Phi¬
losophy of Leadership,” provided an
overview for the following talks which
ranged in topic from managing one’s
time to speaking and listening skills to
running a meeting.

Dr. John. Spencer, chairman of the
History Department, also spoke in the
lecture scries. He said that there are
many “intelligent people here who will
be leaders someday, and they should
take advantage of this program.”

The program, which is designed to
sharpen various skills which student
possess, is a new undertaking by the
Student Government Association and
the Student Activities Office to serve
the Student body.

Tom Kovach ’92, President of the
SGA, explained that, in the past, the
SGA has done more to help voice stu¬
dents' opinions than to provide pro¬
grams for students to lakepart in. With

the introduction of the Student Leader¬
ship Program, he hopes to lay a founda¬
tion fornew programs along these lines,
while continuing the role as “the stu¬
dents' voice.”

The seminar series will take place
every semester and be refined by a
panel of students and faculty after each
term.

Two seminars remain in the fall
term schedule, “Leadership and Diver¬
sity” and “Opportunities at Middle-

everyone must have a role and you
must fulfill your role,” he said. He
added that one should not think that
one is imprisoned by arole. In fact, “the
role of the follower is as important as
the leader,” he stressed. “Fulfillment of
a role gives you the feeling of realizing
potential and leads to self-confidence.”

He also made it dear that one per¬
son may have many roles to act out

“A leader will fulfill a role because
he has responsibility,” Light said. This

“Middlebury students will be leaders in their
professions and their communities. You may not
see as many names in lights, but they are
important people and important leaders”

— President Light

bury.” The seminars take place every
Tuesday in the Student Center, unless
otherwise specified.

Speaking of the program, President
Light commented that in the world
everyone has a role to fulfill.

responsibility is increasingly useful as
students leave Middlebury and become
workers, citizens and parents.

“Middlebury students will be lead¬
ers in their professions and their com¬
munities. You may not see as many

people and important leaders,” said
Light.

Kovach agreed with Light’s state¬
ment. He stressed die fact that the
Leadership Program was geared to¬
wards “all students and not just those in
leadership roles.”

Spencer, whose seminar topic was
“Speaking Skills,” stressed that “the
most important transactions are oral
ones.” He criticized the American
educational system by saying that
"college trains people to write but not
to speak.”

In the spirit of the proverb “Good
manners take so little time but give so
much,” Spencer said, "Good speaking
also takes so little time but give so
much.” He slressed that when people
can talk well, they can get people to
agree with them. The power to argue a
point without appearing conceited is
very valuable.

“Good speaking makes you stand
out from the crowd,” Spencer said.
When asked about the Student Leader¬
ship Program, Spencer said, “There
should be more programs like this to

ety today lack these important skills. In
school, you must leant to speak to a
group and in a group in the form of
seminars and lectures. These valuable
foundations are important to the world
after school, Spencer felt.

The seminars were set up in such a
way that in many of them, the audience
could interact with the speaker and try
to learn first hand the value of leader¬
ship skills.

Amy Heebner '93 said all the ses¬
sions she attended “gave [the group] a
chance to ask questions and listen to
otherpeople.” Shefeltthat.indeed.the
skills discussed would “be useful to
leadership roles .’’both at here and after
Middlebury.

President Light said that Confucius
claimed, “Leadership is service,” and
that this was his feeling towards leader¬
ship today. Confucius alsosaid,“With¬
out knowing the force of words, it is
impossible to know men.”

This follows with whatHenry Davis,
the second president of Middlebury
College, said in his inaugural address:
“The critical part of the Middlebury

“For society to be well-ordered, names in lights, but they are important make the school grow.” People in soci- student is eloquence.”

Middlebury-Dewitt Clinton partnership brings benefits to both schools

(continuoedfrom page 5)
ton partnership is for real.”

Margolis emphasized, “It’s a fell
commitment. When you're there, you
feel it.”

Richard Dollasc, director ofTeacher
Education at Middlebury, coordinated
the Winter Term teaching internship
for Middlebury students at DeWitt Clin¬
ton. Dollasc explained that while in
New York City, the students taught and
tutored at the high school for three
weeks. Then, while the high school
students were administered their Re¬
gents Exam (a New York state profi¬
ciency exam), the interns worked at
Junior High School 80, also in the
Bronx. Dollase traveled weekly to the
Bronx during January to check on their
progress.

Dollasc stated,“When new people
who come in are energetic and bright,
and really want to do something, it
makes a difference for [the Dewitt
Clinton faculty]. So, it helps the staff,
as well as the students.”

Mark Cooper '91, who participated
in the WinterTerm internship last year,
said, “I'm from a conservative back¬
ground, as I think most of the other
Middlebury students who went are..
We were able to relate to the students.
We had a lot of time to talk with them
and find out that they were just like any
other kids that want to go to college.”

Olivia Wolf '91 also spent last
January at DeWitt Clinton and was
struck by the complex problems that
challenged the students and faculty.

“If the teachers get students who
may not have done their homework, it
isn't necessarily because they didn't
want to do their homework. They
could have a mother who's sick, a
brother who's in jail. That’s just as
much a part of their education as being
there from nine to three. Teachers are
faced with a whole bunch of problems,

not just intellectual [ones], I think
they’re faced with a lot. Too much,” ‘
she said.

Jean Taitt '91 was another Winter
Term intern at DeWitt Clinton. She
taught English to freshmen, sopho¬
mores and juniors.

Although the teachers are predomi¬
nantly white and the students predomi¬
nantly Hispanic and Afro-American at
DeWitt Clinton, Taitt stated, ‘There
were barriers, but the barriers were
broken when the teachers really cared
about teaching, and they really cared
about the student”

“I noticed how many teachers would
go that extra step to incorporate the
culture of the Hispanic and the Afro-
American students into the classroom,”
Taitt continued. “They were trying to
tie in relevant things that were going on
outside the school with what was going
on in the textbooks, and I thought that
was really important because..what
they 're supposed to be teaching is very
ethno centric and very Anglo-Saxon
oriented."

According to Dollase,“The school’s
population is about 98% Hispanic and
black. Hispanics are probably the
greater percentage... The faculty,
however, is quite white. And so, cer¬
tainly, our students get a different view
of schooling by going there and seeing
adiversity. It’squitcaninterestingmix
of kids who represent all social classes.
And certainly, the range of the kids’
ability is amazing.”

When asked how teaching at Clin¬
ton changed her outlook on Middle¬
bury College.Taitt said, “(Middlebury ]
is very limited in terms of ideology at
times, and the student body on the
whole is predominantly white. There¬
fore, there are certain things that are
established in terms of the history that
is being taught or the particular culture
that is considered the norm.”

Taitt found it disturbing that the
students “were always considered
minorities, while at the same time they
made up the majority” of the school
population. She noted that“at Clinton,
the students were still called minorities
when they made up 98% of the student
body.”

“It’s not a number, it's a skin color
that’s a minority. And there's so many
negative connotations of what a minor-

Kathy Martin '91 who taught and
tutored math at DeWitt Clinton last
winter said, “At first I was kind of
concerned as to why the internship
wasn'trestricted to students who were
planning to teach, but after doing the
internship, I realize that I don't think it
should be restricted to people who plan
to teach, because you learn so much,
especially if you’re planning to have
children of your own. It tells you that

A DeWitt Clinton Informational meeting.

Photo by Jamey Brenner

ity means, that because you don’t rep¬
resent a large amount of people, your
ideas, your culture, and what you rep¬
resent really is not as important as the
majority," Taitt added.

Taitt described her feelings on going
toClintonsaying, “I think at first itwas
a little scary for me and very intimidat¬
ing. But after a while, you realize that
cultures may be different, and the way
people dress may be different, and
physical appearance in general may be
different, but overall there are a lot of
similarities. They are there for a rea¬
son, which is the same reason I went to
my school, and why I’m here [at Mid¬
dlebury]—to leant.”

you, as a parent, need to get involved in
your children's education."

“There were a lot of students who
were eager,” said Martin, “and I can’t
even say that the Macy students were
more eager than students on other lev¬
els in the school system.” Martin ex¬
plained that the Macy Honors Program
is comprised of higher level classes and
is a math- and science-oriented cur¬
riculum:

“On the other hand,” stated Martin,
“there were the students who prefer not
to be in a classroom, but I don’t think
that’s any different from some students
in college.”

Taitt is from the New York City

area. She said, “If there were any
barriers they were my own precon¬
ceived notions of what Clinton would
be like because I knew Clinton for over
ten years, and I had never been inside
the school. Once I was inside, it was
very overwhelming. Ittumedouttobe
very warm, very friendly. There were
a lot of students, but after a while with
somany people, still, you got to know
a lot of them by face.”

Martin believes that the program is
encouraging for the high school stu¬
dents.

“I think it’s important for all stu¬
dents to know that if they try hard
enough, they can achieve within Clin¬
ton and go to a college. And
Middlebury’s not necessarily going to
be the college for them, but that they
can go to college. And I think many
students, not just at Clinton, but in gen¬
eral, who go to public high schools
don’t really know that there is that
option,” she said.

Dalton will go to DeWitt Clinton in
the near future with a member of
Middlebury’s English Department to
conduct an essay writing workshop fo¬
cusing on college application essays.

"We will go through what an appli¬
cation is, how admissions will look at
it, and how the essay they write will
impact on the decision that we make,”
said Dalton.

The Principal of DeWitt Clinton,
David Fuchs, will be on Middlebury’s
campus November 26-27 along with
the head of the Macy Program and a
student advisor.

“They will be here to stay in touch
with their students, to talk to our stu¬
dents and then to sit down with the
Dean of Students and with a faculty
support staff just to say, ‘Okay, this is
what we see, this is how the students
are adjusting,’” Dalton said.

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Eccentricities

(continuedfrom page 5)

Once this diatribe is over, you are
probably caught up in the electrifying
dramaof swiping your ID card, and the
coast is clear.

Who can say that Proctor slopping
is not son of weird? Variations of this
practice are performed the world over
where lots of polite people converge
upon a desperately overcrowded cafe¬
teria, but here it is done with a certain
.flourish and singularity of purpose that

You're walking with a tray laden
with a nearly .overflowing.bowl of,
nourishing (if aqMnion4j c olo red)

’ ■ MejoBn.*

salad and seven glasses of orange juice
filled to the rim when, all of the sudden,
you see someone approaching, appar¬
ently having attained ramming veloc¬
ity. But at the last second both of you
freeze. And don’t move. And lock
eyes. And are fixed like a deer in
headlights. And wait for the other to
move in order to avoid doing the clas-
sic “171-go-this-way-no-this-way” two-
step avoidance shuffle. I’ve seen these
standoffs last for hours, leaving both
.participants withaheightenedscMe.of
their own politeness as weflas a quiz-

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AQdwhtt about the eccentric mail,

flea an a SJLP.7

s recycling

bins and garbage cans located strategi¬
cally throughout the mailroom, but it
appears that a fairly large sector of our
population is engaged in a hard-fought,
long-term competition to see who can
make the tallest pile of important no¬
tices, events calendars and other col¬
lege-sponsored junk mailonrcp of the
garbage cans.

There also seem to be some points
given for artistic merit. I recently
spotted a pile that was an almost per¬
fect likeness of the Leaning Tower of
Pisa. Not wanting tolgt such beauty
fade sway. I took it bade to my room
and later had it bronzed. I’mlerttptedlo
cany it to class with me sometime, but

Thursday, November 8,1990 f

ARTS

The Middlebury Campus

Zoo’s “70 Scenes of Halloween” has shock, artistic value

By Lisa Horwitz

Witches, beasts, ghosts, trick-or-
treaters, candy com: all these are nec¬
essary elements for a spooky, fun-filled
Halloween. Chris Duva’s 700 project.
Seventy Scenesof Halloween, provided
such a Halloween for its audience from
October 31 to November 2 in Hepburn
Zoo.

The show consists of 70 short scenes
which depict Halloween night for Jeff,
played by Gene Swift ’94, and Joan,
played by Katy Strote '93. The entire
show takes place in their living room
where they receive occasional visits
from a witch, Amani Ivie '93, and a
beast, Christian Parker ’93. The num¬
bered scenes are played out of order
(for example, scene 35 occurs before
scene 10, according to the stage
manager's cues), which keeps the
audience sufficiently baffled as to what
is going on. It opens with Jeff and Joan
arguing about candy com for about five
scenes. Their argument is pretty ridicu¬
lous, which makes the scenes very
funny. At the same time, the repetition
of practically the same argument for
five scenes also demonstrates the
monotony and staleness of their rela¬
tionship. From the beginning, the
viewer senses that there is something
pathetic about this relationship, and yet
s/he cannot help laughing at it.

This repetition technique is used
throughout the play in order to display
the lack of communication between

Jeff and Joan. As their frustration with
each other builds, weird things start to
occur. A witch, dressed similarly to
Joan, and a beast, dressed like Jeff,
begin to appear periodically, usually
from inside the living room closet. On
one level, these two are funny, spooky,
and entertaining — perfect for a Hal¬
loween production. However, the au¬
dience soon realized that there is more
to these spooks than just playing funny
tricks. They come to represent Jeff’s
and Joan’s ids, alter-egos (or whatever
other Freudian term you care to use),
the part of themselves which they are
unable to communicate to each other.
At the end of the show, the witch and
beast invite their counterparts to the
D.Q. (Daily Queen?) but end up leav¬
ing without them. In the last scene Jeff
and Joan make plans to go somewhere,
probably to the D.Q mentioned earlier;
however die frustration and resentment
is now gone, as if the departure of the
alter-egos enables them to return to
their former psuedo-tranquility.

The show is funny and entertaining,
yet has a serious side which the viewer
must interpret for him/herself. The
fragmented scenes bordering on the
edge of reality keep the audience just
on the edge of understanding. The show
keeps the audience actively thinking
about what’s going on, while it is not so
esoteric that they are completely frus¬
trated in their attempt to grasp the
meaning. All of the actors contributed

Ghosts, goblins, and candy corn in Hepburn Zoo

Photo by Nick Nebolsine

greatly to the show as a whole. All of
the roles were very difficult, and the
actors did an excellent job in keeping
the audience interested, despite the
abundance of repetition within the
show. Chris Duva deserves a great deal
of credit for pulling off a very challeng¬
ing drama.

Keniston gives cozy
concert in Pearsons

i

By Lori Landau alto in the church choir where she grew

It was as if I were cuddling under up in Wethersfield, Vermont. During a
flannel sheets in feetsy pajamas as Susan brief respite from the Green Moun-

Muslc abounds and resounds In chapel.

Photo by Melissa Green

Mead feet tap to Jamboree jam

Keniston sang to me in my mother's
folky voice. I think Susan Keniston
must be everybody’s mother because
lastnight at Pearsons she made those of
us in the audience feel live and small.
We sang and laughed to her comical
lyrics and we almost got teary when her
voice turned high and shaky. Kcnison’s
performance was sponsored by the Ar¬
madillos, a politically active organiza¬
tion at Middlebury. It was intended to
be a pre-election activity directed at
promoting political and social aware¬
ness through tasteful and enjoyable
tactics. It was so successful that, well,
even the tone-deaf were humming.

Two sets of fifty minutes each arid
a brief intermission brought the show
to just over two hours. The song list
included “A Chat With Your Mom,”
by Lou and Pete Berryman, “Christ¬
mas in the Trenches,” by John
McCulchcom, and "A Small Blue
Marble,” by Patricia Sheih.

It is obvious just from listening to
her that Keniston has been singing all
her life. She was bom and raised as an

tains, Susan moved to New York City
for six yean, reluming “stunned and
burned out” and ready to be re-awak¬
ened by a newly-found sense of plane¬
tary awareness.

For the past eight yean Keniston
has been playing solo folk-singing
concerts in the Northeast Her songs
show concern about spiritual, social
and political issues. She is amemberof
the People’s Music Network, a group
organized to sing songs of “Freedom
and Struggle.” However, next month
she plans to make a rare appearance in
California to give a limited number of
performances. Her cassette. By Our
Eyes Be Are Open, is on sale at the
Vermont Country Bookstore in Mid-
dlcbury. On the tape is an assortment of
pieces including two originals called
“My Best” and “Full Moon.” I would
highly recommend purchasing Susan
Keniston's tape; it provides a warm
and strange sense of security to hear the
problems of humanity reckoned by a
soothing voice.

By Wendy Rivenburgh
A rush of first year females beelined
for the front aisle seats when the doors
of Mead Chapel opened on the evening
of Friday, November 2nd. They had
kept a forty-five minute vigil outside,
so they could reach places in which
they had the highest probability of being
serenaded. Middlebury College’sresi-
dent celebrities, a cappella groups the
Dissipated Eight and thcMischords, as
well as the visiting Dartmouth Aires,
sparked this excitement

After the initial breakup of the log¬
jam, a steady flow of collegians and
townspeople added to the expectant
crowd. Competition for a good view
included bouts of discrepant estima¬
tion: “Do you think four will fit?” A
few truly devoted fans settled for die
standing room only that remained in
the balconies and below.

Signs of life foully appeared on
stage to rush the audience. “It’s family
night," proclaimedChris Emerson '91
and Ed Lovett ”9i whose brother and
cousin, rcspectivdy, perform with fhe~
Aires. The Dartmouth group then

danced its way forward, singing an old
D-8 favorite. (Was this some kind of
flattery by imitation?) Their musical-
ity, however, persisted, and except for
one shaky start when an alert member
interrupted three times before the cor¬
rect blend unfolded, the performance
was indicative of the talent in the group.

In addition, the Aires acted out skits
to charm the crowd. One supporter
claimed, “they certainly know how to
make you laugh.” In illustrating the
concept of backwardness, they paro¬
died a ritual of Halloween and offered
a “treat or trick or dime from Unicef.”
Add to this a wimpy Hanz and Franz
duo, an Energizer battery segment and
a query, “Pardon me, would you have,
any Grey Poupon?” and you’ve got a
chapel overflowing with laughter..

Looking sharp in their matching
jewel-toned tops, the Mischords im¬
pressed the audience with their clear,
fastidiods harmony as weA as their pro--
jection or humor. The diree newest
members, Sarah- Chick ’92, Katie
-Hccktasn *93, and Sheila Sabourt >93,
performed Beethoven on kazoos far

initiation, and as another aside, a new
song,“Wclcometomy Fog,” premiered
to prove that a brunette can be “just as
dumb as any blonde.” Also new in the
group's repertoire was the beautifully-
harmonized, “You’re my Favorite
Waste of Time.”

A sweet serenade to a doling front-
row fan by the cver-suave Dissipated
Eight no doubt fulfilled her mild fan¬
tasy. In contrast, an unlikely “Rocky”
leapt around in hyperactivity for his
solo in‘Take YouBack.” Anew song,
Peter Gabriel’s “Solsbury Hill,” was
very well-received, as was Michael
Jackson’s “Billie Jean”with its glove-
adorned soloists. Such spirited singinj
won the group two well-deserved en
cores.

Of the D-8's new fin
ben, Christopher Butler,
and Britt Newsome, Matt Yeoman *93
assessed, “They really coped.”He also
rejoiced that the “crowd r e spon de was

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The Middlebury Campus

Thursday, November 8,1990

Dale Jordan stresses importance of learning to think

By Niooia Bradley

Dale Iordan is die new Design pro¬
fessor in die Theatre/Dance/Film de¬
partment. taking over for Cap Potter
who just designed his last show Fausts
and will be retiring at die end of the
semester.

Campus: What courses arc you
teaching here as a professor?

Jordan: I am doing different scen¬
ery courses and lighting courses, as
well as some in other areas. For ex¬
ample, during Winter Term I am doing
aceurse an design elements andmusic,
incorporsting the two for theatre, dance,
opera, musicals, rock operas, whatever
you want to do. I do everything but
costume.

Campus: So, design is something
that you specialize in?

Jordan: Yes, I have always done
design. But honestly, I think anybody
who is a designer in theater is a frus¬
trated something. Either they’re a frus¬
trated musician or a dancer or an actor.
I don't think anyone has ever started
out to do it I started out designing
because I couldn’t sing. I started doing
it in junior high and I’ve done it ever
since. Iwas drafted into the service and

p ro g ra m , which is kind of unheard of
for a school like this. It's really ambi¬
tious.

Campus: Do you feel like that’s too
ambitious a goal?

Jordan: No, no. Well, it depends
on the students, because some students
shouldn’t be pushed into a particular
focus just yet. My theory is if the per¬
son has an interest in doing it, get him
at it right away. I think a lot of students
are in asituation where they need to get
going on it as soon as they can. It'salot
of years of frustration, a lot of years of
continual education. One of the inter¬
esting things about theatre is that you're
never called upon to do the same thing
twice. So, inevitably you are incompe¬
tent for your whole life, unqualified for
the job all the time. So what you have
to develop in there is an instinct for
how to think about things. Il’sjusllike
when a producer calls up an actor and
says, “I love your acting, do you know
how to play the guitar?” The answer, of
course, is yes and then you have to
damn well go out and learn how to do
it. Designers are in the same boat. “Do
you like doing operas?" “Yes." And
then you go bone up on the particular

color they're really going to be when
they're out there on the stage. You have
to know all that, but those aren’t going
to come to you unless you’re inspired.
And 1 like working with people to try to
get that inspiration.

Campus: Do you think the depart¬
ment here is good at preparing students
for professional theatre?

Jordan: That I don’t know yet, be¬
cause I haven ’ t been here long enough.
I haven't seen enough student theatre
here, and I haven’t seen anyone leave
yet. At my interview I met a few
students who are not hoe now, and
they were really good. One student got
into N YU, which is where I went I was
really impressed that hewas able to get
that far, because I know how hard it is.
It's a hard and insulting process. But no
students from Colorado College would
be doing that, so I’m impressed. I’m
very impressed as well with the faculty
here. They are very supportive, and
really try topush the students. Theway
I look at it is when you're the age of the
students here, you have to be respon¬
sible for whatcourses you want to take.
I push my students really hard, and they
say so every day. And I go along with

Jordan Is the new design professor

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the army for three years, then I worked years to cope with, years to grapple
at the Denver Center for three years, your way through,
then I went to New York University Campus: What do you enjoy about

(NYU) for four years, staying in Mm- teaching?

hattan for another eight years, doing Jordan: I just enjoy talking about
designing for off-Broadway and off- what I do, which I didn't know until I

off-off Broadway shows. tried it Teaching is a renewing thing.

Campus: What made you decide to because, again, I don’t know if I know
came to Middlebury College? anything. It turns out every time that I

Jordan: It was the kind of offer I get in front of a group I seem to pull it
couldn't refuse. After Manhattan, I from somewhere to answer questions,
tooka job at Colorado College in Colo- to get the point across, to develop the

redo Springs. Far me it was good person’s abilities in terms of actual
because it was a school in a town in the graphicskills. I believe that you should
middle of nowhere where I could sec if push them in this “how-to-think” area,
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competitiveness here at Middlebury? From Middlebury” Concert Series. rival, ant

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The Middlebury Campus

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Summer in
Strasbourg

Living Colour enlivens the stage

Devo maps

By John Cocchiarella

lust when you thought the tochno-
pop age of the eighties was giving way
to a resurrection of semi-acoustic
sounds, (witness Sinead O'Conner and
the Sundays) that incredibly strange
but nonetheless interesting band named
Devo re-emerges from the woodwork
to produce a fresh and humorous ap¬
proach to synthesized music. Smooth-
noodlemaps . the band's latest release,
is here for your listening and dance
pleasure.

The sounds on this album are, to be
put simply, sharp and electronic. Ev¬
ery piece is a dance piece and every
sound has an echo of the eighties in its
overtones. This is not necessarily a bad
thing for those of us who are “elec¬
tronic” musicians who get off on the
sample of a glass jar hitting the floor.
Unlike many other electronic new wave
albums, Smoolhnoodlemaus is laced
with quite a few searing keyboard solos
which add funk to the computerized
sequences.

new track

Most casual Devo listeners associ¬
ate the mid-Western quintet with their
latc-seventiescoverof“ICan'tOctNo
Satisfaction,'' and their techno-pap clas¬
sic,"Whiplt" A quick look at Smooths
noodlemans leaves music fans with the
impression that Devo hasn't changed
much— they don't want to be taken too
seriously. The second track on the
album. “Post Post-Modern Man,” is
based on the ditty “If I had a Hammer.”
See what I mean? This is not to say that
Devo doesn't venture into other
realms— they cover the slightly per¬
verted in “A Change Is Gonna Cum,”
(interpret as seen fit) to the somewhat
offensive “Jimmy,“ (which is about the
band's lack of sympathy for a man in a
wheelchair.) Despite these light works
of synthetic mastery, we are reminded
that “Devo Hu Feelings Too,” and that
though life may be a giant hurdle in the
overall scheme of things, we must
“Snake through the chaos with a smooth
noodle map.”

A multi-disciplinary program
featuring French Language,
the Council of Europe &
the European Parliament,
French History, French Cuisine
and Engineering Research.

By Shawn Miller

It's four o'clock in die afternoon on
a sunny late November day in Tampa,
Florida. OutsideTampa Stadium, thou¬
sands of fans tailgate and party in an¬
ticipation of the Greatest Rock and
Roll band in the world. Inside the
stadium, 10,000 or so (kind of) wel¬
come the opening act. Living Colour,
onto the stage. For most of the forty¬
something crowd Living Colour was
an unknown entity, and to say the re¬
ception was lukewarm would be an
exaggeration. The band tried their best,
but they were lost in the sun, the huge
stage and the uninterested crowd, and
as they left the stage they were re¬
warded with a collective yawn.

Such was life for Living Colour last
fall. Although they got positive recep¬
tions at some venues opening for the
Rolling Slones, usually the best they
could hope for was indifference. I dis¬
tinctly remember my aunt complaining
about that “terrible heavy metal band”
that opened for her heroes; Living
Colourwas incam prchensiblefcr many
Sixties children. It was almost painful
to watch them give the effort for such
little response, and it made one hunger
to see them in their own element with
their own fans.

Well, the timehas come. In support
of their latest release. Time's Up, the
band has hit the road. As part of the
“Mental Biscuit" tour, a warmup exer¬
cise that will take them to small college
towns for the next few weeks. Living
Colour hit the RPI Field House inTroy,
New York last Saturday night. And,
despite perhaps fighting the worst sound
systeni since the invention of electric¬
ity. die band blew all bad memories of
the Stoncs'stour out of the stratosphere.

The theme of the evening was
Power, with a capital P. Guitarist
Vernon Reid is to the guitar what Jerry
Lee Lewis was to the piano, playing
chords and fingering with a vengeance.
Drummer Willie Calhoun is the Ani¬
mal of rock and roll, and his bass drum
dominated the show. Corey Glover has
a voice that can shatter diamonds, and
bassist Muzz Skillings is as steady as
LA smog. As they flew through their
various styles.namely funk, punk, rock,
pop, and slash, the unique talents of the
individuals kept the concert from being
a mishmash and allowed it to flow.

Aswastobcexpected, the band was
most animated on the new tracks, and
Reid, who as the band’s founder seems
to naturally assume the leadership
position, led die way. On “Love Rears
It's Ugly Head,” his “wah wah" style

with “Elvis is Dead" from Time’s Up.
As if to offset the undo attention given
to Elvis in the scheme of rock and roll
history at the expense of other pio¬
neers, the band closed the show with
Chuck Berry’s“Johnny B. Goode,"the
third cover of the night (the other two
being PereUbu’s “Final Solution” and
the Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I
Go”).

If any glaring fly could be spotted in
the soup of Friday night, it was the
venue. Of all the college auditoriums
in the Northeast Living Colour could
have picked, none could have been
worse than the RPI Field House. This
place, made of concrete and steel, had
the atmosphere of a morgue, and the
ceiling was so high and massive that
the sound simply got stuck up there and
muddled beyond recognition. The
concert was ruined for those sitting in
thestands. The tarp was also ripped off
the floor by some exuberant slam danc¬
ers, exposing some ice and all kinds of
possibilities for lawsuits. Next time
Living Colour wants to work itself into
shape by playing in front of college
kids, they should play somewhere
decent Like Pepin Gym.

perfectly complimented Calhoun's
monstrous beaL “Information Over¬
load” featured some digital sounding
solos that defy the logical bounds of a
guitar, and his good-old-fashioned rock
‘n'-roll solos at the end of “Type (Eve¬
rything is Nothing)” turned the Fust
single from the album into the most
exciting point of the show.

The band also liberally dipped into
their 1987 debut,Vivid, offering
“Middle Man,” “Desperate People,”
“Open Letter to a Landlord,” and a
vicious “Which Way to America.”
Thankfully, in this world of conscious
rock stars, they resisted the temptation
to preach despite the social and politi¬
cal nature of some of their songs, al¬
though the lighthearted lust speech by
Glover before “Under Cover of Dark¬
ness,” which deals with the problems
of casual sex in the AIDS era, was a bit
bizarre.

The only musical offense of the
evening came when Calhoun opened
the encore with a lengthy drum solo.
Calhoun’s a great drummer, but drum
solos are absolutely useless. A fero¬
cious version of “Cull of Personality,”
quickly got the crowd back into the
groove, and the band followed right up

Middlebury Art Works

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invites you to join us
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Cleary

(continuedfrom page 1)

ries, a punctured bladder, a broken right

femur and fractures to her left forearm,

Makukusaid.

Initially, doctors thought that
Cleary's chances of survival were very
little, explained college Chaplain John
Walsh, however, her condition has im¬
proved.

“The doctors are now Saying that
she's going to make it,” Makuku said.

But Walsh cautioned againstoverly
optimistic predictions.

'1 would not want to give the im¬
pression that we could hope that Beth
could make a total recovery,” he said.

While neurologists at the Medical
Centerhaveyet to determine theextent
of Cleary’s head injuries, they believe
that if she recovers she may be afflicted
with aspccch impairment and a writing
disability, Makuku said.

"She’s going to be in Burlington for
several months at least before her con¬
dition stabilizes enough so they can
move her back home to Washington,”
said Walsh.

Geary majored in economics and

spent the spring semester of 1989 liv¬
ing in Kenya. She had recently won a
position as a Peace Corps volunteer in
Mauritania. She was planning to begin
work on a Ph.D. in development eco¬
nomics after her two-year stint in the
African nation.

Budget

(continued from page l)

The student union and the arts cot¬
ter were later ideas, but budget plans
were flexible enough to adapt to the
changing needs of the college, Gine-
van said.

“Not one single figure or decision
can be understood or made in isolation.
In other words the comprehensive fee
decision by the trustees must be linked
with their understanding of how much
money we will get out of the endow¬
ment and how much we will get out of
gifts,” said Light.

The meeting was the first of two in
a continuing discussion of those issues
in higher education that we think are
national and that Middlebury College
will need to respond to in this decade,”
said Light

The Middlebury Camp us

Members of the college community
wishing to find out more about Cleary's
condition should contact Cleary's par¬
ents at the Ronald McDonald House in
Burlington.

Accidents

(continuedfrom page 1)
viding follow-up treatment for several
students whohad been hospitalized for
recent car accidents involving alcohol.

“The health center secs about one or
two people every weekend for acci¬
dents involving alcohol,” saidCutting.

According to Cutting, during the
time surrounding mid-term exams and
on certain weekends when there are a
greater number of parties, that number
jumps to five or six. In some cases.the
accidents are cases of extreme drunk¬
enness or sickness, but often students
lose control, punch an arm through a
window, or knock ahead against a wall
and need serious medical attention.

“People don’t understand the seri¬
ousness of alcohol poisoning,” said
Cutting. “It is important to drink re¬
sponsibly and to be educated on the
risk involved.”

Thursday, November 8,1990

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greeting cards, fine fragrances, school supplies, laundry
detergent and Russell Stover candy.

Prescription Servlce~As always, we provide fast, friendly
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Men’s soccer advances to E.C.A.C. tourney semi-finals

By Kevin Ryan

TheMiddleburymen'svarsitysoc-
cer team kept its season alive last week,
advancing to the semi-finals of the
E.C.A.C. Division Three Tournament.
After wanning up with a 1—0 victory
over St. Lawrence in their last regular
season match, the Panthers moved on
to the tournament and met up with
Southeastern Massachusetts University
in the first round. Although Middle-
bury dominated its opponent, the Pan¬
thers needed a late overtime goal to
pull out a 1—0 victory.

The final game of the season took
place lastTuesday against the Saintsof
St. Lawrence. Middlcbury entered the
game one victory shy of the ten win
mark, and eager to extend their un¬
beaten streak to eight games. The
Panthers started out fast and strong, to¬
tally dominating the Saints for the first
ten minutes. Midfielder Mike Hart ’92
gave his team the lead midway through
the half after a scramble in front of the
St. Lawrence net. His shot eluded the
desperate goalie and came to rest in the
comer of the net. After taking the 1—
0 lead, the Panthers slowed the game
down, and the half ended with Middle-
bury in front.

The second half saw very little St.
Lawrence offense. Middlcbury's de¬
fense, perhaps the strongest in their
Division, stifled the Saint attack, al¬
lowing almost no penetration into the
Panther zone. The offense was effec¬
tive as well, yet could not manage any
more goals. The victory brought the
Panthers to 10—3—1, and set a win¬
ning precedent for the team as it en¬

tered the tournament.

The E.C.A.C. Division ThreeTour-
nament began last Saturday as Middle-
bury, the number three seed, hos ted the
SoutheastemMassachusetts University
Corsairs, seeded sixth. A large crowd
of Middlebury fans gathered in the
beautiful Indian Summer weather to
cheer on their Panthers in their first
tournament appearance since losing to
Williams in the semi-finals three years
ago. Southeastern Massachusetts
sported 13 wins, butwouldnecd a great
game to upset the red-hot Panthers,
who were 7—0—1 since losing in
overtime to Division One Vermont.

As the game began, Middlebury
seemed to be suffering from a few
play-off jitters. Yet the team did not let
the pressure min their game, and soon
after shook away their worries and put
together a solid first half. The best
scoring opportunity arose when striker
Tony Claudino '93, who leads the team
with 6 regular season goals, sent a
-booming shot towards the Corsair net.
With the goalie out of position, an
S.M.U. defender had tomakc an excel¬
lent play by barely heading the ball
away from the net. The Panthers had
several other shots on net in the first
half, but only Claudino’s shot and a
Mike Hart shot off the post were very
threatening.

The goalies stood out during the
second half, making crucial game¬
saving stops. The first came just thirty
seconds into play. Tom Murray '91
played a deceiving shot in towards the
S.M.U. ncL The shot sank quickly, and
appeared to be heading into the upper

Derek Harwell *92 scrambles for the ball in front of the S.M.U. net during last Saturday’s 1—0 triumph

(photo by Nick Sake liar ios)

comer of the net But the Corsair net-
minder came up big, deflecting the ball
before it could reach its destination.
Middlebury's goalie, Dave Findlay '91,
also made a few key plays as the game
wound down. A shot from twenty yards
out was lipped over the net by Findlay,
who has not allowed a goal in eight
halves. Despite outplaying the Cor¬
sairs, Middlcbury could not muster a
single goal during regulation time, and
the second half ended in a scoreless tic.

Football drops final home match

By Tim Berry

The Middlebury College football
team lost its first chance in years to
finish with a winning record following
a lackluster loss to a poor Colby team.
The Panthers looked flat throughout
the game, but still managed to cany a
lead into the waning moments of the
fourth quarter when Colby scored the
go ahead touchdown on Len Baker's
28 yard run. The loss dropped the
Panther’s record to 3—4 and leaves
them hoping to salvage a .500 season
with a win against hapless Norwich in
the season finale next week.

The Panther faithful were left
wondering what had happened to the
team that had beaten a strong Hamilton
squad two weeks prior as Colby gained
a 7—0 halftime advantage. The Mid¬
dlebury offense was completely sty¬
mied in the first half and the Colby
offense did not fare much better as it
was only able to manage one score on
quarterback lames Dionczio's one yard
touchdown run in the second quarter.

The offense exploded in (he third
quarter as the Panthers scored fourteen
quick points to take a tenuous 14—7
lead. Middlcbury's first score came
when freshman Doug Clamer fell on a
Panther fumble in the endzone. After
putting together its first consistent drive
of the day, it looked as if Middlebury
was going to fumble away a golden
opportunity as three Colby players
converged on a loose ball. The three
Mules however attempted to pick up
the ball instead of falling on it and it
squirted into the comer of the endzone
where Clamer recovered for a touch¬
down.

It appeared as if Middlebury was
ready to take control of the game when
they quickly capitalized on a Colby
turnover just np^mttsjfi*r the*
first score. T

put the Panthers ahead 14—7. Colby
scored in the fourth quarter on another
Baker run, this one from three yards
out, but the kick attempt failed and
Middlebury held aslim one point lead.

A 27 yard field goal by freshman
kicker Eric Bachman extended the
Panther lead to four and put the pres¬
sure on the Colby offense tugkrc a
touchdown with time runm^Knit.
Unfortunately for Middlcbury, the
Mules were up to the task and Baker’s
run with 3:26 remaining in the game
proved to be the decisive score as Colby
went on to a 20—17 win, its second in
a row over Middlebury, to run its rec¬
ord to 2—5 on the season.

The afternoon was disappointing
for the Panthers on both sides of the

ball. Thcoffcnsc looked good at limes,
but was never able to consistently move
the ball on the Mules. The Panthers
were forced to punt the ball seven
times toColby's four. The line blocked
well, especially on the two touchdown
drives, and was instrumental in the
Panther's 226 yards on the ground, but
the blocking broke down on several
crucial plays when Middlcbury des¬
perately needed a first down. Sopho¬
more quarterback Jordan Sullivan
continued to play well in the place of
the injurcdPat Dyson '92, as did Andy
Hyland '93 and Greg Fisher '93.

A fine defensive effort was once
again marred by short lapses when
Colby seemed to be able to move the
(continued on page 15)

(rhelo by Christina Jteger)

The E.C.A.C. Tournament format
stales that, in the event a game ends in
a tic. two fifteen minute overt imchalvcs
will be played. If the overtime ends in
a tic, a shoot-out takes place to decide
the outcome. Realizing that a shoot-out
can be won be cither team, regardless
of talent, the Panthers fumed on the
heat during overtime. Pressing hard,
Middlcbury almost scored when Buddy
Liddell '91 nearly headed the ball into
the net. But, once again Middlcbury's
domination of thegamewas not enough,
and the game progressed to the second
half of overtime.

Considering his teams failure to put
the ball in the net, and realizing that a
shoot-out was very undesirable. Coach
David Saward made a key player move
which would prove to.be decisive.
Hoping to stimulate the Panther of¬
fense, which would eventually outs hoot

S.M.U. by a 26—8 margin, Coach
Saward moved Tom Murray '91 from
his regular position at fullback up to the
front of the attack at right wing. The
move paid off with only 2:30 left in
oveitime.StrikerMikc“Picklc'’Walkcr
‘93 sent Murray breaking in towards
the net, and Murray promptly beat the
S.M.U. goalie to the lower left comer
of the net. The goal gave the Panthers a
1—0 lead, and the game ended soon
after with Middlebury victorious.

With the victory, Middlebury moves
on to face Wesleyan tomorrow.
Wesleyan, the number two seed, ad¬
vanced with a first round 3—2 victory
over Brandeis, and will host the Pan¬
thers at 2:00. The other semifinal pits
the number one seed, Colby, against
the number four seed, Williams. The
winnersof the semifinals will thenplay
for (he championship on Sunday.

X-C second in ECAC

By Carla Barker
Last Saturday was a mcmorablcday
for the Middlcbury women's cross¬
country team. Competing against 34
other Division Three eastern colleges
on a twisting, muddy course, the Pan¬
thers prevailed to bring home a second
place trophy. The squad was beaten out
only by Ithaca College of New York.

The day was very warm and in the
seventies, causing the danger of dehy¬
dration, and the peril of heat exhaus¬
tion. To make matters more compli¬
cated, the host college,Tufts, ran out of
water for the competitors shortly after
the women's race. Despite the Hawai¬
ian temperatures, the women all fin¬
ished in good health and in high spirits.

The start of therace was achallcnge
in itself. After 100 yards of sprinting,
the field of 300 racers made a sharp
right around a tree and thundered down
a steep slope to enter the woods. Many
runners were caught on the inside of
the him, and forced to a walk, amid
pushes and shoves, while rounding the
tree. Once into the woods, the pushing

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narrowed to a mere four feet wide. It
was a chance for thc cunning Middle¬
bury runners louae some of theacstratc-

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good place in the peek.

First-year student Kristin Daly
started quickly, at usual, moving into
le. Her legs.

to turn over and m ancuver ahead of the
mass of slashing and clawing runners.
Senior Holly Frybcrgcr and sophomore
Sarah Rabinowitz alio outran the mob
at the start and stood in good position at
tenth and eleventh place at the one mile
split.

Toward the two mile mark of the
five kilometer course, the pack thinned
out enough for some surging and pall¬
ing lo Lskc place. Senior Betsy Leighton
and first-year student Malia Richmond
were among those caught behind the
others at the beginning. Over the first
two miles they repeatedly surged and
rested, pasting competitors one at a
time. Unfortunately, the effort to catch
up to a reasonable place in the pack
drained Leighton.

"By the lime I'd caught up, I was
too dead to do much more,** said
Leighton.

Richmond was pleased with her
performance. "I liked running with so
many other runners, but the pushing
was a little excessive."

During the last mile, Daly and
Rabinowitz feared up tor the final sprim
while Frybcrgcr clung lo the lead pack.
Daly finished sixth overall in excellent
position for neat week's N.C.A.A.
qualifier and was cheered on by her
family, who drove over to view the
race. Rabinowitz was ninth and
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Thursday, November 8,1990

Flying Monkeys finish with 6-2 record: best season ever

give ground for twenty minutes. As taking fourth,
both teams began to tire, and as over- Saturday, the Monkeys knocked off

confidentBowdoinbegantoplaynasty, Division One rival Williams in a Ire-
Mark Vanston '93 kicked a penalty mendous game. With ten minutes
goal to put the Monkeys ahead 13—4. remaining, Middlebury was ahead 8—

These points shattered the morale of 0 on tries scored by Rich Cochran '91
the confused down-easters, and Bow- and Anthony Dew '91. Exploiting a

doin played purely defensively for the blatant lack of enthusiasm, Williams
remainder of the match. On a dashing scored twoquick tries and a conversion

seventy yard scamper to glory, Dom toput the Cows ahead 10—8 with five

Coulson '93 scored the final tri of the minutes remaining. Angered by their
game to give Middlebury a 17—4 vie- own stupidity in allowing Williams to

•oty- get back into the game, Middlebury

Three hours later, the Monkeys met exploded with seven points to end the

SpringfieldCollegeforthesecondtime game. The first three oh a Mark Van¬
in seven days in the semi-final round, ston penalty kick, and the final four on

Springfield plays a style of rugby con- atumbling.mshingtriultimatelyscored

ducivetotheirmake-up.ahard-hitting, Trjr • ,

defensive approach designed to over- Xj[ 1*1*161* S VC

power opponents through intimidation

rather than finesse. Neither side con- By Scott McBurney

ceded points until thirty minutes had LastSaturday was a fine day for the

passed in the first half, when Spring- Middleburymen’scrosscountryteam,
field kicked a penalty to go ahead 3— as they placed eighth out of 22 teams in

0. The second half of the game saw the the Eastern College Athletic Confer-

Monkeys continuously on the attack, ence (E.C.A.C.) Championships at

constantly in the opposition end of the Tufts University. Junior Robbie Ped-

end, the Monkeys struck again, this field, but unable to,score. After one ersen stood out for the team, placing

time capitalizing on a Bowdoin pen- hour and twenty minutes of headbash- third in a field of 167 runners,

ally. Matthew Pauley '92doveoverthe ing play, the game ended in a 3—0 It was a fairly fast course and hot,

tri line in textbook fashion to put the Springfield victory, sending Spring- sunny weather that greeted the harriers

Monkeys ahead 10—4 for the start of field to the final round, which they as they set out on their mission: to go

ultimately won. An impartial observer fast and “bring home the bacon.” The
The second half was played to a declared Middlebury to be the third startwasfastandphysical.owingtothe
standstill with neither team willing to place finisher, with U. Maine-Orono 90-degree turn 200 meters from the

by Matt Pauley.

The B-side game was won by Wil¬
liams, but the Monkey chronicler re¬
ceived a concussion, so I don’t know
what the score was, or even if it was
close. I do remember James/Meyer '91
zigzagging through countless Cows to
score one tri, but beyond that, I simply
don’t know what happened.

The 6—2 record posted by Middle¬
bury was the best season ever for the
ruggers, with Middlebury outscoring
its opponents 148—33. Much fun was
had by all on the field and off (as the
game of rugby is far more than a mere
athletic event), and the spring season is
eagerly anticipated.

nearly everybody majors in physical Several N.E.R.F.U.

officials were

England Rugby Football Union Overheard SCOffing at

(N.E.R.F.U.) tournament on October _ t i/tJJf.l_

27 at U. Mass, after posting a 4-1 U P StUrt MMebu O>

record and second place divisional team. They Were
finish. Eight teams were present, two •
representatives from each division. inevitably to be

Middlebury’s first opponent was sec- siletlCed andfinally
ond seed Bowdoin, who won the tour- , . .

nament last year and was 5—0 this embOtTOSSed,, However,

year as Middlebury would

Five minutes into the game, Bow¬
doin scored their first try, and after eventually Carry the
missing the conversion, the score stood (Jnv
at four-nil. Several N.E.R.F.U. offi-

cials, as well as the coach of Bowdoin, 6—4 with ten minutes left in the fir:
were seen smiling self-confidently and half.

were overheard scoffing at the upstart Seconds before the first half was t

Middlebury team. They were inevita¬
bly to be silenced and finally embar-
rassed, however, as Middlebury would
eventually carry the day.

Behind by four points, the Middle-
bury ruggers quickly regrouped for what the second half,
would be a series of devastatingly
dexterous displays of decisive decima-

ished in an uncharacteristically slow
time. The day was not a complete loss
for the junior, however, as he took
home the complete Maytag Washer/
Dryer Combo, as well as the Self-Clean¬
ing Oven, all at a discount price.

Up at the front of the race, Pedersen
was hanging tough with the three-man
lead pack, composed of himself and
runners from Colby and R.I.T. His
time of 26:26 over the eight kilometer
course was enough to earn him a “nice
little medal” and kudos from the crowd.
Anthony Rojo '92 continued on his
torrid streak of races, as he blazed to a
34th place finish. He said that the secret
to hh success was “a good turnover
from the beginning to the end of the
race.” This was also the cascforHersh
and Speiss who both had fine races,
finishing 41st and 75lh respectively.
This was a great performance for the
individual runners and the team, espe¬
cially considering that Schilling was
not at his best

By Kate Chapman midfield play, combined with the ex-

and Sara Switzer ccllentpassing and teamwork, allowed

What has been one of the best sea- the Panther offense to continually as-
sons ever forthe women’s field hockey sault the S.M.U. defense. The forward
team came to an endlast weekend. The line didn’t let up, as they dominated
Panthers were eliminated in the semi- throughout the second half,
final round of the Eastern College The goal came when forward Sarah

Athletic Conference (E.C.A.C.) play- Ellwood '92, deflected a ball into the
offs when they lost to Trinity in over- goal following an offensive comer. This

time. Although the loss was somewhat early boost gave the Panthers the

disappointing, this was a landmark momentum they needed to go on to
season for the team. For the first time in victory.

Middlebury history, the team received Last Saturday the team travelled to
a tournament bid. Williams where they faced fourth-

The Panthers faced number one ranked Trinity. In an evenly matched
ranked Southeastern Massachusetts contest, which eventually went into
University in the opening round of play, overtime, the Panthers were defeated
In what was to be the biggest upset of 3—1.

the season, the team scored in the open- Trinity's squad used an offense-

ing seven minutes of play, and went on oriented lineup, which made protecl-
to hold S.M.U. scoreless until the final ing the goal extremely difficult for the

whistle blew. Panther defense. Since three forwards

Middlebury played their best game were stationed deep in Panther terri-
of the season, demonstrating their well- lory. Trinity’s offensive line was con-

balanced team skills. The smooth tinually on the assault. This set-up put

Over October Break the team headed
to Albany State for an annual Invita¬
tional Meet there. Two men’s squads,
varsity and J.V., made the trip. The
upper echelon team ran to an impres¬
sive eighth place finish, with Pedersen
again gaining the top ten in eighth
place. The J.V. boys, led by such
legends of Middlebury cross country
as Seniors Matt Warren and Tom
Chambers, outdid their teammates and
captured fifth place in the J.V. field of
20 teams. Wanen showed that he is
capable of running fast, as he had ar¬
guably the best raceof his long college
career. Chambers, running without his
customary visual improvementdevices,
face-planted with 800meters left in the
race and was bummed about his finish,
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Thursday, November 8,1990

The Middlebury Campus

page 15

Men’s and women’s crew teams wrap up season at UVM

By Brooke Wynkoop
The Middlebury crew club finished
their four-regatta racing season this
weekend, sending boats to Wesleyan,
Dartmouth and U. V.M. They also sent
their varsity and J.V. boats to compete
in the Head of the Fish in Saratoga
Springs. N.Y. last weekend.

At the Head of the Fish, women’s
varsity and J.V. and men's varsity and
J.V.lightweight and heavyweight boats

all had a great day of rowing. Although
there were a few problems with timing
at the starts of all four races, each boat
rowed hard and finished with respect¬
able times for such a young team. For
many of the rowers, the Head of the
Fish was their first racing experience.

Women’s J.V. raced first in the
women’syouthcightcompetition.They
rowed the two and half mile course in
19:45, beating Springfield and Skid¬

more Colleges. Both men's J.V. light¬
weight and heavyweight boats raced in
the men’s youth eight, with times of
16:47 and 16:52, respectively. Both
crews shut out Springfield and Skid¬
more, as well.

Women’s varsity competed in the
women's open eight and placed eighth
with a lime of 19:17. Women's and
men's varsity boats raced behind the
other crews by 20 seconds because of

Alpine ski team set for slopes

By Cathy Lee

The Division One Middlebury
men’s and women's alpine teams,
who have already been preparing vig¬
orously for the 1990-1991 winter ski
season with extensive dry-land work¬
outs and fitness programs, are ex¬
tremely excited and optimistic about
another successful year.

The traditionally powerful
women's team has all its top skiers
returning, and veterans Heather Flood
'91, Erica Noujian '92, Andrea San¬
ford '92, Hilary Rose '92, Jen
Kaufman '92, and Julie Reinhart '92
are all expected to have strong per¬
formances this season. In addition,
new additions Karin Stoeckl '93, Cari
Cornish '94, and Kate Webber '94
will provide fresh talent and added
depth to the team. Cari Cornish, an
even and consistent skier from the
Green Mountain Valley School,
should be one of Middlcbury’s top
skiers this winter in both the Giant
Slalom and Slalom.

The individual abilities of each

Football

(continued from page 13)
ball at will. For most of the day the
Panthers shut Colby down completely
behind the efforts of noscguaid Rick
Gronda '93. Senior defensive back
Dave Donahue had his finest game of
theyear as hedelivered a bone-crunch
ing hit on a Colby receiver in the third
quarter that forced a fumble and led to
a Middlebury touchdown. The Panther

(continued from page 14)

but proud of the battle wounds that he

wore.

This race also saw Chad Bryant
nose out number seven man Terry
Kellogg '94 by five seconds, raising'
the question of who would travel to the
final twomeets.Coach Aldrich showed
his usual Solomonic wisdom by divid¬
ing the duties in half, letting Bryant run
one race and Kellogg the other. With

skier, combined with tough training,
will surely make the Middlebury
women’s team a more than formidable
opponent against schools such as
U.V.M. and Dartmouth. Last winter,
Middlebury and chief rival U.V.M.
shared leading roles, often alternating
between first and second place at each
carnival; however, this year as the Lady
Panthers enter the winter with such
depth and a high level of fitness, con¬
sistent defeats over the Catamounts are
quite foreseeable.

The Middlebury men’s team also
share greatcxpcctations for this season
with the return of veterans Jim Dow
’91, DcvinO’J'leiir91,Ted Steers’91,
Geoff Curtis ’91, and Pete Webber ’93.
O’Neill has been given All-American
honors at the N.C. A. A. Championships
for the last two years and is gearing up
for another prosperous season, while
Dow and Webber hope to make it to the
N.C.A.A. championships again this
year.

The new talent of freshmen Brani-
gan Sherman and George Putnam will
_

secondary continued to play excellent
run-support football, but was vulner¬
able in the waning moments of the
game as Colby relied primarily on its
receiving core to set up the winning
touchdown run.

The Panthers need a win against
intrastate rival Norwich next week to
go 4—4 and avoid a third straight los¬
ing season. Injuries continue to plague
the Panthers as starting linebacker Hank
two athletes as closely matched as these
two, there really was no other fair
decision.

There is only one meet remaining
for the 1990edition of the Middlebury
Harriers. This weekend they will drive
to Southeastern Massachusetts Univer¬
sity for the Division Three N.C.A.A.
Qualifiers. The top fifteen runners in
this race earn a trip to the National
Championships the following Satur¬
day.

Sources close to the team indicate

also provide the team with depth. In
particular, the men’s team is planning
to focus on greater consistency in the
Giant Slalom in order to score up with
the U.V.M. Catamounts this winter.

Despite the unexpected warm spell,
the alpine team still hopes tostart skiing
sometime next week at Sugarbush in
preparation for the Eastern Series pre-
camival races. In addition, ski camp at
Sugar Loaf has been arranged for a
week before Christmas. Thecnlire team
is anxious to get on the slopes after a
full and demanding fall season of dry
land.

Much of the enthusiasm shared by
team members arc due to the support of
head Coach Ban Bradford and new as¬
sistant coach and former Middlebury
skier John Taylor. Ban and J.T. have
not only provided strenuous work-outs
such as sprints up Chipman Hill and
exhausting “Stadiums,” but both have
given continuous encouragement and
have helped develop a high level of
team morale, which should be crucial
in the cold winter months.

McKnclly ’92 and starting defensive
tackle Scan Fitzsimmons ’91, both
injured in the Colby game, arc ques¬
tionable for the final showdown. Nor¬
wich is 1—7 on the year and could
salvage its season with a victory over
Middlebury. Although the game may
seem like an unimportant contest, it is
key that Middlebury win if the Pan¬
thers wish to continue their football

ascendency. _

that Robbie Pedersen has a grealchancc
to make the cut, and Brian Schilling
may just have an outstanding race and
find himself up there as well. Hie team
has been improving all season long,
and at this point looks ready to do what
has not been done in recent memory:
send a runner to N.C.A.A.’s and place
in the top five teams in New England.
With a number eight ranking by the
Boston Globe, this seems to be within
a reasonable reach for this fine group
of runners.

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timing difficulties stemming from us¬
ing one boat for all fives crews. Men’s
varsity crossed the finish line in 15:41,
the best time of the day for Middlebury.
Both varsity boats had trouble with one
of the seats in the boat and the varsity
men ended up finishing the last half of
the race with only seven rowers.

“This weekend, Middlebury proved
that you can be everywhere at once,”
said coach and captain Phil Busse ’91.
Middlebury had fine days at Wesleyan,
Dartmouth, and U.V.M. Although all
three regattas were novice scrimmages,
the crews faced stiff competition all
around. The biggest regatta of the
weekend was at Wesleyan where
Middlebury entered the women’s J.V.
and men’s J.V. heavyweight boats.
Middlebury’s women rowed extremely
well against Connecticut College.Coast
Guard, Trinity and Wesleyan, finish¬
ing a hard race in 16:44, only 6 seconds
behind the boat in front of them and one
minute behind the winning boat. The
women were also pleased that they cut
three minutes off of their time from the
Head of the Fish regalia. The length of
the course was only a few meters shorter
and the lime improvement was encour¬
aging. The men also did well despite a
m idracc handicap. The crew came in at
14:33 with the hardship of a lost skeg,
which is a device used to keep the boat
going straight. Meanwhile at Dart¬
mouth, our men’s lightweight boat
faced extremely hard competition. “To
pul it in perspective," says men’s co¬
captain Taylor Fravcl ’93 “it’s like
putting the Middlebury football team

Women’s X-Country

(continued from page 13)
mented, “Oh, just the usual."Thc usual
surely did the job, landing her among
the top fifteen medal receivers at the
meet. Rabinowilz, a Nordic skier, has
improved steadily throughout the sea¬
son, and this raccwas her bestshowing
thus far. Captain Fryberger was a bit
more subdued about the result. “It was
a liuledisappoinling,” she said, having
fought hard at the final mile. Her top
fifteen performance as well as her many
consistent races this entire season will
stand well for going ink) the qualifier.

“This race is just what we needed to
gain confidence and momentum. Next
week is when it counts,” said a pleased
Coach Aldrich. The N.C. A. A. qua) ificr
next week will be the final race of the
season to be held at Southeastern
Massachusetts University.

up against Notre Dame.” Middlebury
raced against Dartmouth, Yale and
Rutgers, all schools known for their
excellent rowing programs and tough
rowers. The men finished the three and
a half mile course in twenty minutes,
ten seconds off the next boat.

Our men’s and women’snoviccboat
journeyed to U.V.M. on Saturday to
race U.V.M.’s novices on the Mis-
sissquoi River. U.V.M. proved to
Middlebury what professional coach¬
ing and good equipment can do for a
young crew team, as they won both
races. However, the Middlebury nov¬
ices learned where their strengths and
weaknesses rest. Middlebury’s nov¬
ices are not lacking in form and tech¬
nique, but they need to increase their
power to be competitive. Both aspects
are vital to rowing, and the novices
should be commended for their great
work. They had little water time this
season and that factor also made a dif¬
ference in the outcome of the U.V.M.
regatta last weekend.

“The team worked really hard this
season and they had a great season
despite the disadvantages they faced,
such as lack of working equipment and
coaching,” said women’s captain Ser¬
ena Maurer ’93.

The team's spirit never once came
down during the season and everyone
remained enthusiastic.

On a hopeful note, coxswain Amy
Jamrog ’93 said, “Despite all this
season's chaos, I was very impressed
with our rowing performance, espe¬
cially this past weekend. ”

“We’ve had such great weather,”
one tunner commented, “next week is
bound to be nasty.”

Middlebury's sixth and seventh
runners wcrcTracyMiddlcton ’94 and
Heather Pedersen '92, whose parents
had also come to watch. All told, the
team carried home three medals and a
trophy for the second place team per¬
formance. At the women posed with
their trophy, a mounted polieem an came
up behind the group to join in the pic¬
ture. Everyone was pleased to have
come away uninjured as several com¬
petitors had to be carried from the course
with sprained or twisted anklet. The
worst for the wear was Leighton, who
had tangled with a briar bush and ob¬
tained some minor scratches.

The top five final scores were: Ith¬
aca 38, Middlebury 109, Colby 170,
Williams 172, and Bowdoin 172.

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PERSONALS

Initials that belong on a CD cover. Sounds intriguing.

Your grader

HELP! SAVE MY SHOCK ABSORBERS! PAVE UPPER A LOT.

To:

JANET in Italy
JON in England
V in France
and MATT in Spain,

I miss you guys! Midd isn’t the same without you!

Love,

THERES NO POINT IN SAVING
TOUR LUNCH BAGS IF VOU
CANT KEEP THETA CLEANER
THAN THIS

EDMUND. OH EDMUND,

They’re coming out with a sequel to “Highlander" and you’re not
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Miss you,

Regan

as—

Man, myth, legend, honus. You’re my hero.

— Your groupies

THATS WHAT
KXJ THINK

Merry X-mas, lets us tham in good health all over the U.S.

— Love, Doug
(P.S. I think so.)

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The Haggis is a valued part of our society. Don’t underestimate the
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Marshall—

Where does the strength come from, to tee the race to its end?
From within. Hope your edition of Middlemarch is belter than mine.

Smile E.

Ian Rush

Thursday, November 8,1990

The Middlebury Campus

To All Midd Rowers and Coxswains:

Congratulations on a great first season together.
Thanks to Phil, Serena, Taylor and Randy for all then-
organizing. Hope to see you all again in spring!

Love,

Aim&Clancey

To Eight Seat in Italy,

Jamie, we miss you back here at Midd! Hope
you’re having a terrific time. Remember we’re all
thinking about you.

Love,

/ Your Cox

Scott Janes—

Congratulations! Making the D-8 is awesome.

t- An admirer

Hey Linda

Rotunda! Break a leg, baby, I know you'll be
great! Love, hugs, and chocolate from your roommie.

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Bloomfield/Grandad's is a cool place. Dude —
very much fun. Who would you do?? Feeding the
ducks and shopping for cookies — anytime, hon. We
are going to make it Berea, here we come.. .Love ya!

—L. (Teach)

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Found: one silver bracelet. Please call ext 4610 or
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snapping away in “la lay Ice lo" land, and having a
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me. I love you all.

— Sarah

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— I count the days. Wub oo roni. I’m thinking of
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It still ain’t de same wit ouch ya. Wc desperetely
need u back. We ain’t got no good editers. Hope
Pares is fun, wishing u a grate Thanksgiving. Wee
mis u!

— Da Management

I feel, I look, I act.

I brood, I laugh, I cry. ’

But then,

1 cannot help

But look back at myself
And wonder.

Why?

So, Clementine,

Which am I—

A poet or a judge?

—A. Ginsberg

OVERHEARD

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“I don’t think my fruitflies are mating — they
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HI, LACEY, ITS JOmt.
. HAVEYOU GIVEN
HELLO? ANY MORE THOUGHT
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HAVE, PEAR. I GUP- AW

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BOTH UNANNOUNCED
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IBS,000 VOTES, AN
EXTRAORDINARY FEAT
THAT HAS STUNNED
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f?\EGTABUSHMENT!

LACEY DAVENPORT,

THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS¬
WOMAN WHO RESIGNED LAST
SUMMER OYER THE SSL
CRISIS, HAS BEEN SWEPT
BACK INTO OFFICE IN
A WRITE IN CAMPAIGN...

MY REACTION* IN TIGHT!
TO WHAT, MIGHT!

PEAR? SHE'S SOU.

unite,, l A VIRGIN!

I AND IN
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BEEN SENT TO CONGRESS,
BUTTM OUST THRILLED
BEYOND WORDS t
TO BE ONE
OF THEM!

HEAVENS!
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RUCKUS!

GRACIOUS.
DIP YOU
TELL THEM,
DEAR?

...AND HOW
MANY THINK
WE SHOULD
INVADE KUWAIT*

SINCE SHENEVERCAMFWONEP,
MRS. DAVENPORT IS NOW INTHE
UNUSUAL POSITION OF HALVING TO
FTNP OUT WHATS ON VOTERS'
MINDS AFTER THE ELECTION!

IN THE STREETS OF SAN
FRANCISCO TONIGHT, THERE
IS MUCH JOY OVER THE
RE-ELECTION OF LACE/
DAVENPORT...

A SHOW
OF HANDS,
PLEASE!

WELL. FIRST, ILL BE
CATCHING MY BREATH
AT AN ARIZONA SPA
WITH SOME OLD COLLEGE
. CHUMS. THEN rFS BACK
f TO WASHINGTON... — ,

YOU'VE ALL ONE LAST

BEEN VERY QUESTION,

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EXCUSE ME,
SIR. BO
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DYNAMIC

COUNTRY g

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Thursday, November 8,1990

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Non-discrimination
and sexual orientation

Last January the trustees showed vision and courage when they
decided that all-male social organizations had no place at Middle¬
bury College. In a statement issued to the college community, they
declared that organizations which discriminate on the basis of gender
were “antithetical” to the mission of the college.

One would think that they would agree that discrimination by any
campus organization on the basis of sexual orientation is equally
repugnant...right?

Think again.

In 1985, the board rejected a proposal to add the words “sexual
orientation” to the non-discrimination statement which appears in
the College Catalogue. This after the faculty and the Student Forum
(the precursor to the SGA) had endorsed the idea.

The trustees argued that the non-discrimination statement is a re¬
flection of federal law. Its only purpose is to affirm that the college
complies with the law. No more. No less. Since federal law says
nothing about discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, Mid¬
dlebury College wouldn’t either.

Besides, Smith College was making headlines because it had alleg¬
edly become a haven for lesbians. Trustees and administrators at
other elite New England colleges worried that gay students might in¬
undate their campuses, bring down the wrath of the press and check
the flow of endowment contributions if they took a public stand on
gay rights.

But that was five years ago. Since then the Russians have pulled
out of Afghanistan. A dissident poet has become president of
Czechoslovakia. Solidarity became the ruling party in Poland. East
and West Germany became one nation, and people gave each other
chunks of the Berlin wall for Christmas.

And on Sunday November 4,1990, five Middlebury graduates
came back to talk about what it was like being gay on this campus.

No one would have predicted any of this five years ago.

As a student here, you can’t hope to excel in your classes if you’re
just doing the minimum. In settling for the minimum, Middlebury
has fallen behind the times on this issue. Both Amherst and Williams
have made sexual orientation a provision in their non-discrimination
statements. And of course, these are schools we love to compare
ourselves to.

And any employer who wants to interview on the Middlebury
campus must sign a non-discrimination statement which includes
sexual orientation. How can the college require something of others
which it refuses to do itself?

The time has come for the trustees to confront their prejudices and
get over their fears. The college has made significant strides in diver¬
sifying the student body during the last five years. Gay students have
suffered more abuse than any other group on campus. With violence
against homosexuals on the increase all over the country, the trustees
must act quickly to amend the non-discrimination statement to show
their support for the rights of gay and lesbian students at Middlebury.

Thursday, November 8,1990

The Middlebury Campus

page 19

Students cite double standard
in U.S. policy toward Israel

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By Syed All Raza Mehdi
and Kashlf Zafar
In his introduction to “A Question
of Palestine”, Edward Said writes about
the problem underlying Palestinian na¬
tionalism: “Wewcreon the land called
Palestine; were our dispossession and
our effaccment, by which almost a
million of us were made to leave Pales¬
tine and our society made nonexistent,
justified even to save the remnant of
European Jews that had survived Na¬
zism? By what moral or political stan¬
dard arc we expected to lay aside our
claims to national existence, our land,
our human rights?... For even though
all the issues surrounding the Palestini¬
ans arc complex and involve Great

Power politics.. .the animating power plinc towards the unfortunate natives
of the Palestinian movement is its whose existence, paradoxically, was
awareness of these simple, but denied."

enormously consequential, questions.” The West was able to sec a rcflec-
Palcstinc was conceived of as an tion of itself in the Zionist cause and so

empty barren land awaiting salvation, accepted it. Islam, in popular western

When some acknowledgement was conception, was already adark.regres-

madc of its inhabitants, it was assumed sivc, fanatical religion; so “it made

that they would be spirited across the morcclcganlthcpiclurcofahandfulof

ate is overwhelmingly indifferent to border “by procuring employment for European Jews hewing acivilizalion of

—-—--- | them) in the transit countries, while sweetness and light out of the black

' raaitlOnalAmeriCan denying [thcml any employment in Islamic sea (at a reasonable distance

democracv _ |their) own country (Theodor Hcr/I).” from Europe)." The Jews were taking

* | It was this attitude that led Israel up Kipling’s While Man’s Burden and

governance by the Zwangill to formulate the slogan: “a that was all that mattered.

npnnlp _ is nn thp land without people, for a people with- The terrorizing of the local popu-

peupie IS on me olU land.” lace by the Zionists, the bloody mas-

decline as well. This attitude gained great currency sacrc of250 women and children in the

in the West because, as Said notes, Eu- ArabvillagcofDeirYasscinduringlhe
politics on the federal level, and whose ropcan Imperialism and Zionism, for 1948 war by Menachcm Begin (who

all their differences, “belong fun da- was later awarded the Nobel Peace
mentally to the ethos of European Prize),thesystematicexpulsionofPal-
mission civilisatrice - nineteenth cen- estinians from their lands, and the
tury, colonialist, racist even - built on denial of all rights to them, were all ig-

nolions about the inequality of men, nored in the West,
races, and civilizations: an inequality TheplightofthePalestinianpeople
allowing the most extreme forms of has been obscured by thepoliticsofthe

self-aggrandizing projections, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, and by the
most extreme forms of punitive disci- struggle (until recently) between the

Double standards do not suit a country like the
United States, which has relentlessly asserted
itself as the the world leader in democracy and

Democracy has not
won the Cold War

Superpowers. Issues of Israeli security
always dominate any discussion of a
Palestinian state (this is rather ironic
since Israel is the only nuclear power in
the Arab East).

It is therefore no surprise that Sad¬
dam Hussein’s anti-imperialist rheto¬
ric moves the Palestinians so greatly.
Palestinians do not sec Saddam as their
great friend, but given the fact that anti-
Arab, anti-Islamic motives continue to
inform and direct American foreign
policy, anti-Americanism has wide
appeal.

The lime has come for the United
Stales to take a fair position in the
Arab-Israeli conflict. In our opinion, a
common American misconception is
that lews and Palestinians can live
peaceful ly in the State of Israel. fudg¬
ing from the recent massacre of Pales¬
tinians at the hands of Israeli forces,
and the resulting killings of Israelis, it
is obvious that this will never be so. In
our opinion, two nations entrenched in
such hatred cannot coexist peacefully.
Thus, the solution lies in the formation
of an independent Palestine.

The United States has repeatedly
taken the stance that this issue must be
resolved through dialogue. Itisaknown
fact that I srael unjustif ably holds Arab
lands. In our opinion, the American re¬
sponse to this reality is far milder than
the almost offensive altitude currently
being taken toward Iraq. After all,
Israel has done pretty much the same
thing (taken over Arab lands). Such
double sundards do not suit a country
like the United Stales, which has re¬
lentlessly asserted itself as the the world
leader in democracy and equality.

Student opposes U.S. military build-up in Persian Gulf

States has not sent troops to the Saudi None of this provides the slightest
desert to preserve democratic prin- justification for die present war-drive
ciples.. .This is sbout money, about *nd the huge Iom of life which might
producing governments loyal to Amer- result. Inlight of all this, weeali (bribe
ica and about who will set the price of immediate withdrawal of all US and
oil.” other foreign maps bom the Gulf

Second, the intervention is an at- region and Middle East, and urge all
tempt toreassert US global influence in those concerned by the threat of war to
the post-cold war world, using military join us in opposi t io n to the current
powertocounter the glowing economic military build-up- in the 1960s and
strength of Japan and the newly reu- 1970s the snd-ww movement in this
niled Germany. country played an i m po rt a nt mie in

Finally, the crisis is being used in an bringing to an end US involvement in
effort to divert attention away bom South East Asia, in the present clinuae
pressing domestic problems: the of confrontation and military escale-
occnpation of Gaza, die West Bank, budget, the SAL crisis, the threat of a tion we urgently need to build a new
and Southern Lebanon. new recession, poverty and homeless- anti-war movement to prevent another

The real reasons far dm military ness, resurgent racism, the threat to the Vietnam War. GET US. TROOPS
build-up arc very different. First, con- envir^^T waste of natural re- OUT OF THE OULFt NO MORE
tinned US control over the world's courses, and many others. VETNAM5I

By Marc Szepan “...government of the people, by the

In the course of its recent history, people, for the people....”
EastcmEuropehascxpcrienccdmajor A people, whose voter turn-out

changcsinrcspecttobothitscconomic hardly reaches fifty percent during
and political setting. The success of presidential elections, whose clcclor-
Poland’s “Solidamosc” movement
marks the beginning of a new era in
European history. Perhaps its most
striking concomitant is the downfall of
the so-called communist regimes. The

In the present climate of confrontation and
military escalation we urgently need to build a
new anti-war movement to prevent another
Vietnam War.

Think of the six w
closest to you

ow guess

which one will be raped

this year.

One out of six college women will be sexually assaulted this year.
But you can change the odds of it happening. Simply by trying to
avoid situations that leave you or your friends vulnerable.

For starters, follow security measures. Walk with a friend after
dark. And be aware that date rape is a major problem on college
campuses. With many of these rapes involving drinking.

Then share these facts with six of your friends. And maybe none
of them will become another statistic.

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